Subj : USB 2.0, Warp 4, ECS and H/W...
To   : All
From : Peter Knapper
Date : Mon Jun 06 2005 03:44 pm

Hi Folks,

I have some more USB questions... where to start...

Some background... I am NOT currently using USB, but I have Warp 4 FP15 running 
and have only the basic original USB Support installed. The OS/2 Hardware 
Manager currently reports -
  USBUHCI.SYS v1.1 Host Controller driver is loaded.
  USBHID.SYS v1.1 Class driver is loaded.
  USBD.SYS v1.1 Hub Controller device driver is loaded.
  USDPRT.SYS v1.1 Printer driver is loaded.

All this is pretty old stuff but thats is probably not too relevant so far...

The USB Resource Manager S/W from OS/2 Netlabs can see my Epson Stylus Photo 
720 Printer via USB and reports Printer specif info such as Serial no., S/W 
revisions, etc, however I cannot print via USB (due to my old level drivers 
probably) so I use the printer via its parallel port.

However, I am looking at moving to eCS 1.2 (hopefully that should sort out the 
USB printer issues) and adding a USB memory stick of some sort for a digital 
camera, so I was trying to figure out if -

  1. How can I tell if my current H/W (probably not) is likely to work as USB 
2.0 H/W (assuming an install of eCS 1.2 works), or do I need a motherboard/PCI 
card based USB 2.0 card? I was hoping some S/W can tell what your USB chipset 
is capable of...

  2. Is there a utilty that I can run on a system that can report all this 
level of detail? Usb Resource Manager 0.9.7 from OS/2 Netlabs does not appear 
to display down to this level of detail...

Thanks............pk.


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