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Re: USB and DS10L

 
Alex Chupahin
Super Advisor

USB and DS10L

Hello
Is it a way to enable USB integrated host
on DS10L ?
If yes, I'll have a chance to use USB under Linux
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Steven Schweda
Honored Contributor

Re: USB and DS10L

I know nothing, but on an XP1000, there's an
SRM variable:

>>>show *usb*
usb_enable OFF
>>>

I'd suggest investing $10 in a cheap-Chinese
PCI USB card with an NEC chip, but I know how
many PCI slots there are in a DS10L. (Which
is what has kept me from buying one.)
Alex Chupahin
Super Advisor

Re: USB and DS10L

hmmm
thanks, I return home and check it
Alex Chupahin
Super Advisor

Re: USB and DS10L

Unfortunately,
DS10L firmware have no usb_enable variable.
Problem still here.

Did any DS10L owners not try USB on the back??
Mark...
Honored Contributor

Re: USB and DS10L

Hi,
As far as I am aware you will not be able to use the USB ports on the DS10L for anything.
Mark...
if you have nothing useful to say, say nothing...
Rob Leadbeater
Honored Contributor

Re: USB and DS10L

What are you looking to use the USB ports for ?

On Tru64 Unix the only thing that would (possibly) work is a keyboard or mouse.

No drivers were ever written for anything else, storage devices for example, as far as I'm aware.

I'm not sure what version of Linux you're looking to use on the DS10L but I somehow doubt that would differ to Tru64.

Cheers,

Rob
Steven Schweda
Honored Contributor

Re: USB and DS10L

> If yes, I'll have a chance to use USB under
> Linux

Do you have any evidence that "Linux" does or
does not support the USB chip on this system?

Do you have any evidence that the USB stuff
is actually disabled by the SRM firmware?
I can imagine that Tru64 can't use it, but
that's different from its being disabled at
some hardware/firmware level.

> [...] I somehow doubt that would differ to
> Tru64.

I would not be amazed if some Linux or other
offered better device support than Tru64 on
the same hardware. Graphics cards, for
example.
Alex Chupahin
Super Advisor

Re: USB and DS10L

Hello,
I decide to return to find a workaround to this problem,

I wish to use USB for anything I use in my home linux workstation. For a USBsound or flash memory for example, yeh?
Linux kernel supports a huge number of USB chipsets, so I'm *sure* if I can see an USB device in SRM
>>SHOW CONF

I be able to use it.
But still cant see.
Is it blocked or somewhat?
Alex Chupahin
Super Advisor

Re: USB and DS10L

BTW sometimes ago I had seen an USB device in SRM at 164SX board, but physically USB was not present on the board :)
Steven Schweda
Honored Contributor

Re: USB and DS10L

> But still cant see.

I can't see _anything_ in your ">>SHOW CONF"
output. An XP1000 here says this:

>>>show config
Compaq Computer Corporation
COMPAQ Professional Workstation XP1000

Firmware
SRM Console: V5.9-1 Dec 14 2000 16:19:05
PALcode: OpenVMS PALcode V1.88-27, Tru64 UNIX PALcode V1.83-22
Serial Rom: SROM A.B
PIC: 0.36

Processor
DECchip (tm) 21264-3 500MHz

Memory
2048 MBytes of System Memory
Bank Size Base Addr Dimms
------ ---------- --------- -----
0 1024 MBytes 00000000 1111
1 1024 MBytes 40000000 1111

BCache Size = 4 MBytes

Slot Option Hose 0, Bus 0, PCI
7/0 Cypress 82C693 Bridge to Bus 1, ISA
7/1 Cypress 82C693 IDE dqa.0.0.107.0
dqa0.0.0.107.0 SONY DVD RW AW-Q170A
7/2 Cypress 82C693 IDE dqb.0.1.207.0
7/3 Cypress 82C693 USB
11/0 SYM 53C1010 pkc0.7.0.11.0 SCSI Bus ID 7
11/1 SYM 53C1010 pkd0.7.0.111.0 SCSI Bus ID 7
12 51571002/013B1002
13/0 00351033/010514C2
13/1 00351033/010514C2
13/2 00E01033/020514C2

Slot Option Hose 1, Bus 0, PCI
3 DECchip 21143-AA ewa0.0.0.3.1 00-00-F8-71-D4-CD
6 QLogic ISP10x0 pka0.7.0.6.1 SCSI Bus ID 7
dka0.0.0.6.1 SEAGATE ST318404LC
dka100.1.0.6.1 SEAGATE ST318404LC
8 DECchip 21152-AA Bridge to Bus 2, PCI

Slot Option Hose 1, Bus 2, PCI
9 QLogic ISP10x0 pkb0.6.0.2009.1 SCSI Bus ID 6
dkb300.3.0.2009.1 SEAGATE ST336607LC
10 Intel 8255x Ethernet eia0.0.0.2010.1 00-50-8B-11-3A-D5

ISA
Slot Device Name Type Enabled BaseAddr IRQ DMA
0
0 MOUSE Embedded Yes 60 12
1 KBD Embedded Yes 60 1
2 COM1 Embedded Yes 3f8 4
3 COM2 Embedded Yes 2f8 3
4 LPT1 Embedded Yes 3bc 7
5 FLOPPY Embedded Yes 3f0 6 2
6 EIDE Embedded Yes 1f0 14
3f6 15
170
376
7 ES1888 Embedded Yes 220 5 1
5
8 USB Embedded Yes 10
>>>


The stuff in PCI slot 13 is the cheap Chinese
USB card with the NEC chip. (0x1033 is NEC,
0x0035 is the PD720100/PD720101 USB
chip. Look for 0x00351033 in your
SYS$SYSTEM:SYS$CONFIG.DAT file.)