USB PCI Card not seen in System Profiler

[InsectorX]

I have 2 separate USB PCI Cards that I've tried to install into my Power Macintosh 8600.  Neither one of them gets seen in the system profiler.  The first card was a generic chinese pci card from ebay.  But the second one was a card that was advertised to work with Mac OS 9.  Neither worked for me.

I tried a few things to make them work, including: pressing the cuda reset switch for 30 seconds, switching pci slots, reinstalling Mac os 9 on a spare partition.  Nothing has worked yet.

I have a Radeon 7000 PCI plugged into the slot closest to the processor's slot, and it works fine.

Any ideas?

[DieHard]

I have 2 separate USB PCI Cards that I've tried to install into my Power Macintosh 8600

1) Search the forum for USB 1.1 Info and cards.

2) If you bought USB 2.0 Cards, they will not be seen at all

[ovalking]

Hmm, I would expect ASP to see it - I can see my USB card with ASP in OS8.1 (which has no idea what USB is!)

Nevertheless, have you installed the 'USB Adapter Card Support' s/w? This is required for Macs without built-in USB.

http://www.virtualinformation.com/drivers/USBCardSupport.htm

[InsectorX]

Hmm, I would expect ASP to see it - I can see my USB card with ASP in OS8.1 (which has no idea what USB is!)

Nevertheless, have you installed the 'USB Adapter Card Support' s/w? This is required for Macs without built-in USB.

http://www.virtualinformation.com/drivers/USBCardSupport.htm

I just installed USB Adapter Card support 1.4.1 for mac os 8.6.  Now I can see my USB card in the ASP!  But I can't get anything to connect.  I also installed USb Overdrive, It didn't help.  I am getting power out of the usb ports.  I've tried to search the forum, but didn't find anything helpful.