[Eug-lug] hardware query...

[Allen Brown]

The particular USB controller could well be important.
But the discussion was definitely about Linux and not Microshaft.
Windoze has it's own set of stupidities that I'm not talking about.
-- 
Allen Brown
http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown

> You might be thinking Windows and USB. Or Via, SIS, and Nvidia
> USB controllers. All of which are flaky. I've been running
> multiple USB devices for years without hiccups. This includes
> thumb drives, media players, joysticks, printers, and who knows
> what else.
>
> As with all things in life, YMMV.
>
> That be all,
> Mr O.
>
>
> --- Allen Brown <abrown at peak.org> wrote:
>
>> I have heard credible reports that the Linux kernels are not
>> reliable
>> for USB.  Poor implementations that lock up.  Recent kernels
>> are
>> better, but they haven't fixed the underlying issue of
>> clueless
>> USB device driver programmers.
>>
>> You mileage may vary.
>> --
>> Allen Brown  abrown at peak.org