Subj : USB 2.0, Warp 4, ECS and To : Peter Knapper From : Will Honea Date : Thu Jun 09 2005 12:52 am Peter Knapper wrote to All on 06/06 PK> Hi Folks, PK> PK> I have some more USB questions... where to start... PK> PK> Some background... I am NOT currently using USB, but I have PK> Warp 4 FP15 running and have only the basic original USB PK> Support installed. The OS/2 Hardware Manager currently PK> reports - PK> USBUHCI.SYS v1.1 Host Controller driver is loaded. PK> USBHID.SYS v1.1 Class driver is loaded. PK> USBD.SYS v1.1 Hub Controller device driver is loaded. PK> USDPRT.SYS v1.1 Printer driver is loaded. PK> PK> All this is pretty old stuff but thats is probably not too PK> relevant so far... PK> PK> The USB Resource Manager S/W from OS/2 Netlabs can see my PK> Epson Stylus Photo 720 Printer via USB and reports Printer PK> specif info such as Serial no., S/W revisions, etc, however PK> I cannot print via USB (due to my old level drivers PK> probably) so I use the printer via its parallel port. PK> PK> However, I am looking at moving to eCS 1.2 (hopefully that PK> should sort out the USB printer issues) and adding a USB PK> memory stick of some sort for a digital camera, so I was PK> trying to figure out if - PK> PK> 1. How can I tell if my current H/W (probably not) is PK> likely to work as USB 2.0 H/W (assuming an install of eCS PK> 1.2 works), or do I need a motherboard/PCI card based USB PK> 2.0 card? I was hoping some S/W can tell what your USB PK> chipset is capable of... Peter, PCI.EXE should provide the hardware level for you. It will at least give the manf. and part number of the USB controller and hub - from there it's just a lookup. That said, for your purposes all the USB level means is the transfer rate. There are some other differences, of course, but the functionality should be there. I have a cheapy HP USB printer I bought while on the road just to get some printouts (the ink cost more than the printer did) that works just fine with USB (under Windows - no go with OS/2) on a couple of machines here. One is a very early USB 1.0 (Via 503+) while the laptop has the latest and greatest USB 2.0 - and I can't see a difference. It did take the latest level of USB stuff to get a printer to work under OS/2 - that would be the determining factor. Matter of fact, that and the PCCard stuff was my major reason for getting eCS and access to some of the latest updates. PK> 2. Is there a utilty that I can run on a system that can PK> report all this level of detail? Usb Resource Manager 0.9.7 PK> from OS/2 Netlabs does not appear to display down to this PK> level of detail... Other than PCI.EXE, I would simply go to the mb or the computer makers web site (if you don't have the manuals) and look up the USB spec for your system. That's probably quicker than anything else. If you have a Winxx partition, a lot of the mb sources have an app that will tell you which mb you have along with links to specs and updates available. Will Honea ___ þ KWQ/2 1.2i þ Is there a Lawyer in the house? Ok, any more? --- Maximus/2 3.01 * Origin: COMM Port OS/2 juge.com 204.89.247.1 (281) 980-9671 (1:106/2000) .