modprobe, USB, and other modules

[Stefan Jeglinski]

>likewise for usb-uhci
>
>You do remember correctly. The 8500 has no built-in USB ports. This 
>is a $10 special, no-name board, which the hardware browser says the 
>manufacturer is VIA technologies and that it is to use the usb-uhci 
>Driver, although it does appear from the dmesg command, it hasn't 
>found.

FWIW, the 8500 (yes, PCI) should have no problems with an -OHCI- USB 
card; I have one in my 9500 and it is no problem for YDL.

You may want to refer to the thread:

"[OT] USB card was Cannot boot OS X anymore"

circa Dec 11. I quote Tim Seufert:

>USB 1.x controllers came in two basic flavors, OHCI and UHCI.  UHCI 
>was an early standard developed by Intel, OHCI was a later one 
>developed by industry which is supposedly better, but since Intel 
>has a lot of NIH (Not Invented Here) they kept using UHCI, and many 
>silicon vendors therefore also produced UHCI controllers.  Apple 
>used OHCI exclusively, so no version of MacOS (or MacOS X) has 
>drivers for UHCI USB.
>
>USB 2.0 controllers are all EHCI, but the way that USB 2.0 deals 
>with 1.x devices is to require the EHCI controller to contain a 
>complete OHCI or UHCI controller core to deal with USB 1.x mode.  As 
>you might guess, Apple only uses EHCI/OHCI USB 2.0 controllers, 
>never EHCI/UHCI.
>
>From this picture:
>
>http://www.startech.com/ststore/showlarge.cfm?ProductID=PCI220USB&topbar=topbario.htm
>
>your card appears to have the Via USB 2.0 chip.  Unfortunately, Via 
>chose to implement EHCI/UHCI.  You need an EHCI/OHCI USB 2.0 
>controller.

The way I read this, you are SOL. YMMV.


Stefan Jeglinski