Re: [Slightly OT] USB v1 and v2 compatibility

["Bob T. Kat" <bob@evilkat.com>]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 05:36:17PM -0700, Tom Dison wrote:
> I've run an external USB 2.0 CR-RW off a 1.1 port on
> my laptop many times, it works fine (under windoze,
> linux and BSD). However, you can only burn at 4X.
> Better to get a USB 2 PCMCIA card. I only have one
> PCMCIA slot (cardbus), and I usually have a wireless
> NIC in it.
>


if thats the case you could get a usb2 pcmcia card with two port and hook
a usb wireless card off the other port, hehe we are getting to the point
of being able to hook just about anything up to usb, a few months ago I 
was looking at USB sound cards for a laptop that the sound card had died

Bob T. Kat 

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