[ltp] Re: R40 blown USB controller

[James Knott]

Pablo Vera Zorrilla wrote:
> On 1/18/07, *Ben Pfaff* <blp@cs.stanford.edu 
> <mailto:blp@cs.stanford.edu>> wrote:
>
>     Pablo Vera <pvera@vercan.com <mailto:pvera@vercan.com>> writes:
>
>     > So, my final conclusion is that I more or less blew the USB
>     > controllers, but not their power source.
>
>     Yep.  This happened on my X40 too.  ThinkPad USB controllers are
>     not very resilient.  Now I have to use a USB PCMCIA card.
>     --
>
>
> What brand/model are you using ?, if I buy a USB PCMCIA card I would 
> like to avoid linux driver issues.
>

I bought an Adaptec 2 port USB 2 PCMCIA card a while ago.  Works fine.  
The USB ports in my ThinkPad still work, but are only USB 1.1.