V4 Dongle - no driver?

[Mr_P]

USB card manufacturer is unknown..... just have markings of 'UH2-255', one of the servers has a newer card - 'SUNIX 1074NC' 2 of the Macs are recent 2.7G liquid cooled. The other 2 macs both 2.0G one about 6 months old - the other about 2yrs.

The way the cases are cabled, the CIB always tends to be in the Mac port, not a PCI card port.... so havent experienced that issue. Dongles are always installed internally on the PCI card, Havent had any issues reported when on an external mac port.

Was running a different V4 mac this weekend (same software re-build) - and had no issues the whole weekend....

Will see if there have been any further issues on particular production,

Cheers

S

[Spam Butterfly]

The unidentified USB card is possibly an Orange Micro USB card - Orange Micro went bust a few years ago, but the cards were still selling after the company went bust, and High End used to supply them in Austin shipped systems for sometime after Orange Micro went bust. Some of the earlier XL machines are pre-software only...

Personally, I've never particularly liked these cards...

Hugh

[Mr_P]

The orange micro ones we've got have a big sticker on them saying 'orange micro'... these dont... unless there were an unbranded batch supplied. The part numbers and serial numbers are totally different between the two types of card. The SN on the orange cards start 'W2053120', the unbranded UH2-225 start '400018001-00' p/n 'A00919-D14' compared to the lists of sn's and pn's i have, it would indicate that there are probably not orange usb...

cheers

s

[CatalystGirl]

I have recently had a problem come up with a card that doesn't seem to be the micro orange either. This one is an F2G? I don't have any laying around the office. The user says the usb port for the dongle works fine. The ones on the card out of the back of the G5 do not work after 30 seconds. He said it drops the CIB. The ports on the computer are fine. I am working to replace this card, but I do not know what it is. Do you guys know of any other failures with the F2G?

Leah Durrett
Product Support Specialist

[Mr_P]

I'm currently trying 2 x belkin 3 port cards off the shelf from PC world (UK)... (due to speed of availability...) 2 ext 1 int. They are Mac compatible and so far no problems....

Also have tried 2 of the 'SUNIX 1074NC with NEC D720101AGM chipset (4+1 port cards) from span.co.uk - cheapest available for Macs. again - no problem in other macs...

The 4 macs that did display this dongle issue have 3 different types of USB card in them - 2 have 'UH2-255', 1 has new 'SUNIX 1074NC' 1 has old 'Orange USB'....

SO this doent really point to any particular brand of card being an issue, as all Macs had the same problem at the same time after a 'warm-restart'

I would still favour Richards explanation of a driver model change in the OS - failing any other reason - it is unlikely to be my 'disk image build' as there are a number of other identical servers with no issues.....

I will be testing 10.4.7 next week - will let you know if the production had any further issues, or if it was just a one-off.

Cheers

S