[ltp] Re: R40 blown USB controller

[Alex Deucher]

On 1/19/07, Pablo Vera Zorrilla <pvera@vercan.com> wrote:
> On 1/18/07, Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
> > Pablo Vera <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.
>

Any should be fine.  I don't think anyone makes a non EHCI (USB 2.0)
compliant or UHCI/OHCI (USB 1) compliant controller.

Alex

> Pablo
>