Can I use the ELBOX SPIDER2 USB PCI card on a pc???

[Piru]

I don't think it works. It's a common NEC USB2.0 PCI card with modified PCI ID, so the driver won't detect it.

With linux you could add the PCI ID to the driver's know PCI IDs, but with Windows you can't.

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@Boot_WB

I see.

So the PCI ID is fixed only in their own drivers, to make sure you can't use any regular el-cheapo PCI NEC card with Mediator. Why am I not surprised...

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@mjg59

USB chipsets have special PCI classes.

Yep.

Sensible drivers look for these rather than specific chipset IDs.

Possible, but yet the driver probably wants to limit itself to specific chipset. Or at least I doubt the same driver works for every and all USB cards there is...

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@platon42

Ahh, that'd surely explain it.