Best practices - USB 2.0 PCI card and gigabit ethernet PCI c

Toomas Aas toomas.aas at raad.tartu.ee
Mon Jan 12 12:44:03 PST 2004


Hi!

> I am running freebsd 4.9 and want to add:
> 
> - a USB 2.0 PCI card

AFAIK, FreeBSD 4.9 only supports USB 1.0. Depending on what you want to 
do, there are two options:

- upgrade to 5.x, which supports USB 2.0 (but is possibly a bit too 
  "cutting edge")

- use FireWire devices instead of USB 2.0. FireWire is supported in 
  FreeBSD 4.9

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