Re: usb 2

[Gavin McCullagh <gmccullagh@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Gjermund Skogstad wrote:

> torsdag 25. januar 2007, 02:11, skrev nigel barker:
> > 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?
> 
> 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.

Is USB2 not supposed to be backward compatible?  I would expect the pen
drives to work, but at USB1 speeds.  I've never personally found a USB pen
drive that didn't work due to a mismatch of USB versions.

Gavin