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USB2 Networking Cable - driver for it?
"Paul" wrote in message ... RF wrote: Hi Experts, I have 2 Win2K boxes and want to connect them via my USB2 cable. I have searched many places and downloaded two different drivers but they don't work. All seems to go well when I install the drivers but afterwards Device Mgr always shows a big yellow Q mark at USB Device for it. If I uninstall the software, the question mark goes away but there is no trace of an installation I did leave the cable unplugged until the software was loaded but it didn't help. The cable I have has no brand but the plugs are standard and do hook the two boxes together. The enlarged part on the middle of the cable reads "USB Network Cable." Anyone know where I can find a driver for the cable and Win2K? TIA They call it PCLinq here. More than one company made a chip for it. I think one company had to stop making it, due to a patent. http://www.prolific.com.tw/eng/downloads.asp?ID=29 http://www.usbgear.com/PCLinq2/ http://www.linkusb.com/ I'd probably start with a copy of UVCView and get the vendor and product numbers. And then maybe you can figure out who makes the chip inside it. As far as I know, there is no standard USB device class for those things. So you'd likely want to get the software from the company that made the cable. The label printed on the cable may be of more value, than the electronic identification. http://web.archive.org/*/http://down...d/e/b/a/eba105 0f-a31d-436b-9281-92cdfeae4b45/UVCView.x86.exe idVendor: 0x067b idProduct: 0x2501 http://www.linux-usb.org/usb.ids 067b Prolific Technology, Inc. 2501 PL2501 USB-USB Bridge (USB 2.0) Once you've got some identifying information, it may be easier to track down a driver. If the only version of software, is on the included CD, then you may have a tougher time finding it. Paul Thanks Paul for the very helpful reply. I'll investigate your suggestions. Just after I posted I thought of checking the BIOSs - my most recent computer had both legacy and USB2 already turned on. The other box is lder - the legacy was turned off and the USB2 was not mentioned. I turned on the legacy and I'm guessing that this is the max speed I'll be able to get with those two boxes - no problems though. I don't have very much to transfer. I also have several CDs with loads of USB progs. I'll be back soon. Thanks again. |
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USB2 Networking Cable - driver for it?
Hi Experts,
I have 2 Win2K boxes and want to connect them via my USB2 cable. I have searched many places and downloaded two different drivers but they don't work. All seems to go well when I install the drivers but afterwards Device Mgr always shows a big yellow Q mark at USB Device for it. If I uninstall the software, the question mark goes away but there is no trace of an installation I did leave the cable unplugged until the software was loaded but it didn't help. The cable I have has no brand but the plugs are standard and do hook the two boxes together. The enlarged part on the middle of the cable reads "USB Network Cable." Anyone know where I can find a driver for the cable and Win2K? TIA |
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USB2 Networking Cable - driver for it?
RF wrote:
Hi Experts, I have 2 Win2K boxes and want to connect them via my USB2 cable. I have searched many places and downloaded two different drivers but they don't work. All seems to go well when I install the drivers but afterwards Device Mgr always shows a big yellow Q mark at USB Device for it. If I uninstall the software, the question mark goes away but there is no trace of an installation I did leave the cable unplugged until the software was loaded but it didn't help. The cable I have has no brand but the plugs are standard and do hook the two boxes together. The enlarged part on the middle of the cable reads "USB Network Cable." Anyone know where I can find a driver for the cable and Win2K? TIA They call it PCLinq here. More than one company made a chip for it. I think one company had to stop making it, due to a patent. http://www.prolific.com.tw/eng/downloads.asp?ID=29 http://www.usbgear.com/PCLinq2/ http://www.linkusb.com/ I'd probably start with a copy of UVCView and get the vendor and product numbers. And then maybe you can figure out who makes the chip inside it. As far as I know, there is no standard USB device class for those things. So you'd likely want to get the software from the company that made the cable. The label printed on the cable may be of more value, than the electronic identification. http://web.archive.org/*/http://down...VCView.x86.exe idVendor: 0x067b idProduct: 0x2501 http://www.linux-usb.org/usb.ids 067b Prolific Technology, Inc. 2501 PL2501 USB-USB Bridge (USB 2.0) Once you've got some identifying information, it may be easier to track down a driver. If the only version of software, is on the included CD, then you may have a tougher time finding it. Paul |
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USB2 Networking Cable - driver for it?
"Paul" wrote in message ... RF wrote: Hi Experts, I have 2 Win2K boxes and want to connect them via my USB2 cable. I have searched many places and downloaded two different drivers but they don't work. All seems to go well when I install the drivers but afterwards Device Mgr always shows a big yellow Q mark at USB Device for it. If I uninstall the software, the question mark goes away but there is no trace of an installation I did leave the cable unplugged until the software was loaded but it didn't help. The cable I have has no brand but the plugs are standard and do hook the two boxes together. The enlarged part on the middle of the cable reads "USB Network Cable." Anyone know where I can find a driver for the cable and Win2K? TIA They call it PCLinq here. More than one company made a chip for it. I think one company had to stop making it, due to a patent. http://www.prolific.com.tw/eng/downloads.asp?ID=29 http://www.usbgear.com/PCLinq2/ http://www.linkusb.com/ I'd probably start with a copy of UVCView and get the vendor and product numbers. And then maybe you can figure out who makes the chip inside it. As far as I know, there is no standard USB device class for those things. So you'd likely want to get the software from the company that made the cable. The label printed on the cable may be of more value, than the electronic identification. http://web.archive.org/*/http://down...d/e/b/a/eba105 0f-a31d-436b-9281-92cdfeae4b45/UVCView.x86.exe idVendor: 0x067b idProduct: 0x2501 http://www.linux-usb.org/usb.ids 067b Prolific Technology, Inc. 2501 PL2501 USB-USB Bridge (USB 2.0) Once you've got some identifying information, it may be easier to track down a driver. If the only version of software, is on the included CD, then you may have a tougher time finding it. Paul Many thanks Paul. I did find the items you mentioned but failed to make the connection. I suspect the problem is the older box. The vendor and product IDs were the same as the ones you quoted. I found that the bios in the older box had Legend only and the newer one had both Legend and USB2. Both bioss are turned on for the USB and the older box always shows a yellow exclamation mark. The older box does have 2 USB connections - is it necessary to have a plugin card to get the USB to work on these data transfer cables? The PCLinq software sets up very easily - now all I need is the connection. TIA |
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USB2 Networking Cable - driver for it?
RF wrote:
"Paul" wrote in message ... RF wrote: Hi Experts, I have 2 Win2K boxes and want to connect them via my USB2 cable. I have searched many places and downloaded two different drivers but they don't work. All seems to go well when I install the drivers but afterwards Device Mgr always shows a big yellow Q mark at USB Device for it. If I uninstall the software, the question mark goes away but there is no trace of an installation I did leave the cable unplugged until the software was loaded but it didn't help. The cable I have has no brand but the plugs are standard and do hook the two boxes together. The enlarged part on the middle of the cable reads "USB Network Cable." Anyone know where I can find a driver for the cable and Win2K? TIA They call it PCLinq here. More than one company made a chip for it. I think one company had to stop making it, due to a patent. http://www.prolific.com.tw/eng/downloads.asp?ID=29 http://www.usbgear.com/PCLinq2/ http://www.linkusb.com/ I'd probably start with a copy of UVCView and get the vendor and product numbers. And then maybe you can figure out who makes the chip inside it. As far as I know, there is no standard USB device class for those things. So you'd likely want to get the software from the company that made the cable. The label printed on the cable may be of more value, than the electronic identification. http://web.archive.org/*/http://down...d/e/b/a/eba105 0f-a31d-436b-9281-92cdfeae4b45/UVCView.x86.exe idVendor: 0x067b idProduct: 0x2501 http://www.linux-usb.org/usb.ids 067b Prolific Technology, Inc. 2501 PL2501 USB-USB Bridge (USB 2.0) Once you've got some identifying information, it may be easier to track down a driver. If the only version of software, is on the included CD, then you may have a tougher time finding it. Paul Many thanks Paul. I did find the items you mentioned but failed to make the connection. I suspect the problem is the older box. The vendor and product IDs were the same as the ones you quoted. I found that the bios in the older box had Legend only and the newer one had both Legend and USB2. Both bioss are turned on for the USB and the older box always shows a yellow exclamation mark. The older box does have 2 USB connections - is it necessary to have a plugin card to get the USB to work on these data transfer cables? The PCLinq software sets up very easily - now all I need is the connection. TIA Do other USB devices work on that machine ? I would expect it to work, even if one end is at USB 1.1 rate and the other end is USB 2.0 rate. With the limited number of buffers, it should just stop when the buffers are full, until the other side drains the buffers. (I didn't know these had a processor inside - I thought ping-pong chips were dumb and mechanical. I don't see the need for a processor in there. Maybe it is a performance optimization.) http://www.prolific.com.tw/eng/Products.asp?ID=18 I would try to connect both PCs to the same power strip, so there aren't any grounding problems. If you can use UVCView on each PC, and see the idVendor and idProduct, that tells me the lowest level (PHY) communications must be working. After that, it would be a driver issue. On the affected machine, is the PL-2501 causing a networking item to appear in Device Manager ? Maybe it is there, but has become bound to the wrong standard (NDIS). There are ways to delete USB items in Device Manager, such that they get redetected, but in this case, I don't see how that is going to help. There is an example here, which relies on Microsoft DEVCON, to interact with the Device Manager. Doing stuff like this can be risky. See "RenewUSB.bat" http://www.robvanderwoude.com/devcon.php ******* For help with BIOS settings, try the old Rojakpot pages. They're now hosted here. http://www.techarp.com/freebog.aspx USB Legacy Support http://www.techarp.com/showFreeBOG.a...ng=0&bogno=342 Sometimes, the BIOS companies product documents to help with BIOS settings. There isn't really that much extra detail here for "Legacy USB Support". http://www.ami.com/support/doc/MAN-EZP-80.pdf Paul |
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USB2 Networking Cable - driver for it?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul" Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 2:02 PM Subject: USB2 Networking Cable - driver for it? RF wrote: "Paul" wrote in message ... RF wrote: Hi Experts, I have 2 Win2K boxes and want to connect them via my USB2 cable. I have searched many places and downloaded two different drivers but they don't work. All seems to go well when I install the drivers but afterwards Device Mgr always shows a big yellow Q mark at USB Device for it. If I uninstall the software, the question mark goes away but there is no trace of an installation I did leave the cable unplugged until the software was loaded but it didn't help. The cable I have has no brand but the plugs are standard and do hook the two boxes together. The enlarged part on the middle of the cable reads "USB Network Cable." Anyone know where I can find a driver for the cable and Win2K? TIA They call it PCLinq here. More than one company made a chip for it. I think one company had to stop making it, due to a patent. http://www.prolific.com.tw/eng/downloads.asp?ID=29 http://www.usbgear.com/PCLinq2/ http://www.linkusb.com/ I'd probably start with a copy of UVCView and get the vendor and product numbers. And then maybe you can figure out who makes the chip inside it. As far as I know, there is no standard USB device class for those things. So you'd likely want to get the software from the company that made the cable. The label printed on the cable may be of more value, than the electronic identification. http://web.archive.org/*/http://down...d/e/b/a/eba105 0f-a31d-436b-9281-92cdfeae4b45/UVCView.x86.exe idVendor: 0x067b idProduct: 0x2501 http://www.linux-usb.org/usb.ids 067b Prolific Technology, Inc. 2501 PL2501 USB-USB Bridge (USB 2.0) Once you've got some identifying information, it may be easier to track down a driver. If the only version of software, is on the included CD, then you may have a tougher time finding it. Paul Many thanks Paul. I did find the items you mentioned but failed to make the connection. I suspect the problem is the older box. The vendor and product IDs were the same as the ones you quoted. I found that the bios in the older box had Legend only and the newer one had both Legend and USB2. Both bioss are turned on for the USB and the older box always shows a yellow exclamation mark. The older box does have 2 USB connections - is it necessary to have a plugin card to get the USB to work on these data transfer cables? The PCLinq software sets up very easily - now all I need is the connection. TIA Do other USB devices work on that machine ? I would expect it to work, even if one end is at USB 1.1 rate and the other end is USB 2.0 rate. With the limited number of buffers, it should just stop when the buffers are full, until the other side drains the buffers. (I didn't know these had a processor inside - I thought ping-pong chips were dumb and mechanical. I don't see the need for a processor in there. Maybe it is a performance optimization.) http://www.prolific.com.tw/eng/Products.asp?ID=18 I would try to connect both PCs to the same power strip, so there aren't any grounding problems. If you can use UVCView on each PC, and see the idVendor and idProduct, that tells me the lowest level (PHY) communications must be working. After that, it would be a driver issue. On the affected machine, is the PL-2501 causing a networking item to appear in Device Manager ? Maybe it is there, but has become bound to the wrong standard (NDIS). There are ways to delete USB items in Device Manager, such that they get redetected, but in this case, I don't see how that is going to help. There is an example here, which relies on Microsoft DEVCON, to interact with the Device Manager. Doing stuff like this can be risky. See "RenewUSB.bat" http://www.robvanderwoude.com/devcon.php ******* For help with BIOS settings, try the old Rojakpot pages. They're now hosted here. http://www.techarp.com/freebog.aspx USB Legacy Support http://www.techarp.com/showFreeBOG.a...ng=0&bogno=342 Sometimes, the BIOS companies product documents to help with BIOS settings. There isn't really that much extra detail here for "Legacy USB Support". http://www.ami.com/support/doc/MAN-EZP-80.pdf Paul Thanks Paul. I had a temporary fix using an external drive. I have seen PCI cards for $10 that can be used in PCs to get USB2. As I understand it, I would need just one for my older computer. I may yet go that route. |
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