OpenPCI USB Controller Working in Mediator

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I finally found a USB card that works in my Mediator using OpenPCI.  I'm typing this now on and using a USB mouse.  Also tested it with a USB scanner with FxScan and an Olympus Camedia 3.4MP camera with VHI/IO-USB.  Works GREAT, even with demo of Poseidan (just select to install all drivers when prompted with the install script).

The card is a 4-port "Acer Labs M5237 Aladdin-V ALI".  I will post a pic of the card and the box if anyone else is interested.  

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I found it literally by accident at a small PC shop in Red Bank, NJ.  I talked to the owner and she told me she has a lot of "old" stock like this.  I saw at least five more of these cards like the one I am using, sitting on the shelf.  I paid $12 for it.  But I bet she would give them to me for $5 each if I bought all of them.      

[stopthegop]

Wow great news. I have tried 1 usb card that i didn't get to work.. Witch versions of poseidon, openpci and arakattack are you using ?

OpenPCI: 2.0
Trident: 3.4
Arakattack: latest

[stopthegop]

better post a detailed photo, front and back, of the card.
I woder how come u have not posted one yet!

Working atm..  I will post one when I get home tonight

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Pics here:

http://www.geocities.com/stopthegop/index.html



Correction:  I originally stated it was a 4 port card.  It is in fact a 6 port card.

Edit: If you got an error, try again.  Should be fixed.  Sorry

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I'm not using Elbox drivers.  I installed ArakAttack, selected OpenPCI.device.  Then I installed Poseidan stack.  I can post screen shots of Trident with all the ports running and the various classes later today, hopefully.  My miggy is in pieces atm.  Took it apart to put a new clock battery on the mb.  

Someone asked what slot I had the USB card installed in;  answer is I had it working in any of the top three slots in the mediator.  

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I believe he's using OS3.9 with his setup. I've tried ArakAttack and Poseidon with a similar OEM Acer Labs 5723 card on a 1200LT4 under OS3.5 but so far no dice; I get an error message in Poseidon 'can't open openpci.library'  
Update: still not working; tried a VIA USB card (pciinfo sees it) but it also fails to initialize under Poseidon 'OpenUSB.device failed'. I'm using the latest ArakAttack (openpci.library 2.0beta1 68K), Poseidon v3.5 (registered full version), OS3.5, and pci.library 6.2. So the short of this is that I at least can't get an OpenPCI USB card to work on a Mediator 1200LT4. Oh well....  

Does pciinfo show each usb port as a separate entry named "unknown"?  Mine does -- and I suspect that may be why it works.  What I mean is..  perhaps the Elbox driver, not knowing what the card is, lets it pass without running interference?  I tried lots of (mostly newer) USB cards in the mediator before I discovered this card.  I always got weird problems if I had a USB card plugged in.  The weirdness correlated with whether or not pciinfo identified a non-Spider USB card.  The Ali card was the first USB card not to be identified by pciinfo as a "USB" card.  Instead it was "Unknown", and no system instability like with the other USB cards.  Funny, because Poseidan knows exactly what it is!  

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I`m guessing this is using OS4 on a A4000ppc? If so, then us A1200ers would need the Elbox drivers? I think ArakAttack & OpenPCI are for the PPC?

wurzel

Argus is right.  Its OS3.9 bb1 and 2 with 6 slot mediator and CstormPPC.  

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Sorry for the terrible pic, but this shows Poseidan with 4 ports active/in use.  Not sure why it would work in mine but not others?  My miggy is still apart otherwise I'd just have posted a screen grab..  :roll:


 

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Mine is OHCI.