Erratic USB
Wishing to save a bit of desk space, I bought a USB sharing hub to allow a USB keyboard and mouse (among other peripherals) to be shared between a Mac and a PC running SuSE 9.1 /Win 98 (Dual Boot). A couple of problems have cropped up on the PC:
1. When the PC is booted from cold, both the keyboard and mouse are recognised by SuSE. However, if I restart the PC (either from the logout menu or with the reset button), they stop working.
2. The keyboard is recognised on a cold start by BIOS, and I can enter setup and make changes. However, it ceases to work during the boot-process and only starts working again at login. This means that unless I have a PS2 keyboard connected I cannot select any other boot options in GRUB.
In neither case does dis- & re-connecting the keyboard/mouse or toggling them between the two computers cause them to be recognised once they have stopped working. I don't believe that the hub is the problem, as the Mac is perfectly happy with the situation.
The motherboard is an Abit NF7-M (nForce 2 chipset). I have attached a second pair of USB ports to one of the sets of headers on the motherboard, but I get the same result from the pair on the mobo back-panel (except that any USB device connected here knocks out the PCI network card as well).
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Rob.
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