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Date:      Mon, 12 Jan 2004 22:43:04 +0200
From:      "Toomas Aas" <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee>
To:        Joe Schmoe <non_secure@yahoo.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Best practices - USB 2.0 PCI card and gigabit ethernet PCI c
Message-ID:  <200401122043.i0CKhWuI018756@lv.raad.tartu.ee>
In-Reply-To: <20040112034023.51078.qmail@web21510.mail.yahoo.com>

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Hi!

> I am running freebsd 4.9 and want to add:
> 
> - a USB 2.0 PCI card

AFAIK, FreeBSD 4.9 only supports USB 1.0. Depending on what you want to 
do, there are two options:

- upgrade to 5.x, which supports USB 2.0 (but is possibly a bit too 
  "cutting edge")

- use FireWire devices instead of USB 2.0. FireWire is supported in 
  FreeBSD 4.9

--
Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/
* It's always darkest right before you step on the cat.



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