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IBM 8482 (x206) eServer - USB issues.

Hello,

I've got an IBM 8482-9MU (x206) eServer which I'm turning into a general utility station. I've wrapped up the configuration of almost everything except for one tiny detail: it has a separate USB hub for the front USB ports, and Windows XP does not recognize them. It catalogs them as an unknown device.

I've searched IBM's information, and they mention no drivers (or even issues in the support DB) for this issue.

Does anyone have any advice on how I might get Windows to recognize these things?

Thanks!

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jtrosper
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Hi!

What Windows XP service pack are you running? If these are USB 2.0 ports, you will need SP1 or later.

When you have installed the service pack, delete the unknown device from the Device Manager. Then force it to look for new hardware. If the ports are USB

2.0 ports, they will be recognized.

William

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William R. Walsh

Running XP Pro SP2. I've deleted them from the device manager and forced it to scan for new hardware, but it still only returns them as an unknown device.

IBM 4690 OS V4 and various versions of UNIX (SCO, Caldera) see these ports just fine. However, this particular machine will be running Windows XP (blech), which for some odd reason can't see them.

I even updated the BIOS in an attempt to get it going, with no luck.

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Jim

Jim wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@o61g2000hsh.googlegroups.com:

If you have the drivers, do a manual install. control panels, add remove hardware let it search and not find the hardware Yes, I have already added the hardware Scroll to the bottom of the list and select 'add new hardware device' add hardware that I manually select show all devices, next have disk, browse to the drivers location and install the drivers

Good luck. This should work even if plug-and-pray doesn't work.

Of course, you may have plug-and-pray disabled in your bios.

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bz

innews: snipped-for-privacy@o61g2000hsh.googlegroups.com:

I don't have the drivers, and the IBM repository doesn't offer any, so that option is out.

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Jim

Jim wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com:

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I suppose you could install an OS that does see the device and then run windows XP under VMware on that machine.

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bz

please pardon my infinite ignorance, the set-of-things-I-do-not-know is an 
infinite set.

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