[ltp] is my usb controller dead?

[James Knott]

Mendel Cooper wrote:
>> On Saturday 22 April 2006 20:56, come se fosse antani wrote:
> 
>> I've a thinkpad x40 and I think that today my usb controller is dead.
>> I had the usb mouse plugged and I plugged my nikon to the second usb port.
>> the laptop shut it down immediately, without any warning.
> 
> An option is to simply forget about the built-in USB ports and buy a
> PCMCIA plug-in USB card. These come with either 2 or 4 USB2 ports and
> they're supported under the 2.6.x kernels. And, they're cheap: about $12 -
> $16 on eBay, plus shipping.

I recently bought a new Adaptec 2 port USB 2.0 PCMCIA adapter, for $10
(CDN).  It works great in my R31 and SUSE 10.