Author Topic: USB PCI Card - PC Concepts driver for OS9?  (Read 6070 times)

Offline Fleabag

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USB PCI Card - PC Concepts driver for OS9?
« on: March 26, 2022, 08:55:51 AM »
New guy here.

I purchased a PCI USB card marketed under the name PC Concepts. The eBay listing said "2 Port USB PCI Adapter Card For Apple PowerMac G3 / G4 / G5 *OS 9 Windows 95 486" Note the * next to OS9.

I want to put this into a G4, and the box documentation says for mac, download the driver from Apple :-|  Does anyone know what drive this would be for  OS9?  Chipset says CMD 0670B-400.

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Re: USB PCI Card - PC Concepts driver for OS9?
« Reply #1 on: March 26, 2022, 09:18:42 AM »
the asterax probably refers to "only USB 1.1 under this OS".

USB and firewire via PCI should be part of MacOS since 8.6, so i would simply try it without.
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Re: USB PCI Card - PC Concepts driver for OS9?
« Reply #2 on: March 26, 2022, 11:45:50 AM »

Offline Fleabag

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Re: USB PCI Card - PC Concepts driver for OS9?
« Reply #3 on: March 26, 2022, 12:12:46 PM »
Nope, OS9 does not see the card.

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Re: USB PCI Card - PC Concepts driver for OS9?
« Reply #4 on: March 26, 2022, 12:14:20 PM »
Nope, OS9 does not see the card.

Thanks, I checked that out and is said not needed for os9 so I didn't download it.

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Re: USB PCI Card - PC Concepts driver for OS9?
« Reply #5 on: March 26, 2022, 12:48:59 PM »
What does the system info say? Is it not seeing the card at all, or is it there but not active? I don't think these things require drivers.

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Re: USB PCI Card - PC Concepts driver for OS9?
« Reply #6 on: March 26, 2022, 02:07:04 PM »
What does the system info say? Is it not seeing the card at all, or is it there but not active? I don't think these things require drivers.

It does not see the card at all.

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Re: USB PCI Card - PC Concepts driver for OS9?
« Reply #7 on: March 27, 2022, 12:52:32 AM »
There was a discussion one year ago about USB PCI Cards in a G4 MDD; it's here :
http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php/topic,5918.msg44036.html#msg44036

I wrote that the most important features it must have are : USB 2.0 PCI 32 bit version 2.2 and controller chip NEC.

Unfortunately it seems that your card is missing the controller chip NEC and it's not USB 2.0 32 bit.
I would suggest you to return it and buy one with these features. You can find it at Amazon for $ 10-15.
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