Re: USB on alpha164lx

["Robert M. Riches Jr." <richesr1 inetarena com>]

> From: "Ted Goodridge, Jr" <tedgoodridgejr@acm.org>
> Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 18:59:37 -0600
>
> Has anyone gotten USB to work with alpha linux?
>
> I'm trying to get an O-UHCI driver to work, it sees the hub and
> everything, but can't allocate the IRQ for any devices.

I don't know how relevant this is to your hardware, but at
least on a UP2000, a USB PCI card works, but the built-in
USB ports don't.  According to the fine folks at Harddata,
SRM does not properly initialize the UP2000's built-in
ports, largely in the area of assigning an IRQ to the USB
adapter.  There has been some mention that it _might_ be
possible to manually configure them from the SRM command
line.  In my case, a 5-port PCI card replaced the SCSI card
I was using for the scanner, and the scanner then used USB,
and both printers could then go to USB, which made me happy.

Good luck.

Robert Riches
richesr1@inetarena.com