Hey Kids,
I recently bought a 3rd party USB PCI card for my mac 6400/180 powerPC. its installed correctly, as i can get a usb mouse to work on it, but the website i got on the receipt for mac driver software is no good. anybody help with a site address for driver software? i’m running off OS8.6
apples website has so far proved ineffectual to me.
cheers,
pauly t:confused:
What makes you think that uou need a special driver?
If your mouse workds on it, that would indicate that the port is correctly seen from the OS. What more do you expect?
because i want my scanner to work on it, and when its plugged into the USB port the mac wont recognize or send power to it. the same scanner worked before when i got the computer from my dad with a different PCI card that he kept for a 7000 series mac. thats what more i want.
cheers
I have to second Popup’s pertinent point. I’m only in the PC world but to the best of my understanding a USB port, if seen by the system is “installed” and inherently has power. The computer (or driver) does not regulate whether power is “sent” to the USB port. It’s there all the time once the unit is in the PCI socket and seen by the system. I’ve seen some small hard drives and other peripherals that could run on USB power alone but all the scanners I’ve seen needed to be plugged into line power as well.
Maybe Macs are different.
www.driverguide.com has many third party drivers. Use “drivers” and “all” for the login and password. Your card should have some chipset ID numbers on the card itself that will help you identify the model or series.
The next step would be to find out if you have some software that can make configuration cycles, to scan the PCI bus and find out how the card shows up.
Then you can try to traverse the USB bus, and see how the device shows up there. I have no idea how to do it under MacOS, but under linux you can start by looking through the /proc/bus/usb tree. There you can find all sorts of information. Seeing that MacOSX suposedly has inherited most of the internal workings from unix, it should be possible to do something similiar.
(ahhh, re-reading the OP tells me that you’re not using X… But I’m sure there’s something you can do to scan the USB bus…)
trying to track down something on driverguide, but my scanner has no external power lead, its entirely powered through the USB.