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Re: usb 2



Thanks for the reply Gjermund. One of the machines in question spends most of its time as a Skolelinux diskless workstation, but occasionally gets booted into Edubuntu from its hard drive. The Usb 2 drives work in that case, so that's why I thought it must be something to do with skolelinux.

Thanks,
Nigel

Gjermund Skogstad wrote:

torsdag 25. januar 2007, 02:11, skrev nigel barker:
Dear list,

Some of my students have started bringing pen drives that don't work on
skolelinux. I think its because they are high speed only, ie. usb2.0 and
not 1.1. Is there anything I can do about it?

Thanks,

Nigel

I'd say that this is not a Skolelinux problem. As far as I'm aware the kernel in Sarge supports USB2, and this suggests that the bottle neck in your USB setup is in your hardware.

As long as your hardware don't support USB2 there's really nothing much one can do short of upgrading the hardware.

You might consider purchasing extention cards for USB2, but I seriously doubt that it would be a economically sound suggestion.

You might actually find it simpler and cheaper to supply your pupils with USB-thingis that works on your hardware, rather than trying to adapt the hardware to USB2.


Cheers!
Gjermund Skogstad





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