[rescue] PCI USB for Solaris/Sparc?

[Jonathan Sturges]

>Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:31:55 +0300
>From: Mika Kongas <mmk at makkeli.com>
>To: The Rescue List <rescue at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [rescue] PCI USB for
Solaris/Sparc?
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>On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at
09:19:49PM -0500, Jonathan Katz wrote:
>> Hi everyone!
>> 
>> Does anyone have
one of these? After heading to the google-cave it looks like
>> there were/are
supported cards that should work in Solaris 9 and 10.
>> 
>>
http://www.motherboardpoint.com/pci-usb-card-ultra-10-a-t155966.html
>> 
>>
There are also Sun-branded cards out there. The p/n is 375-3140. They exist on
>> eBay, but I wonder if anyone has one on a shelf collecting dust?
>
>Like
the other poster, I've used a generic USB2 card and it worked fine. What
>you
need is one with a NEC chipset. Don't remember the exact model, but
>lots of
companies used them -- Belkin is a good bet. There's bound to be some
>for
peanuts on ebay.
>
>I've got one in a server somewhere, if it helps I can dig
it out to find
>out the exact model of the board..


I just wanted to second
that the NEC chipset is the key factor.  Avoid the cheap Via chipset cards, I
know they don't work.

-Jonathan