usb2pci card in linux?

[gaccm]

well i was an idiot and bought a mobo with a kt266 chipset, which, when OCed beyond 138Mhz, loses USB support. Considering that my mouse is USB, it sucks. I am thinking about buying a usb2pci card (a pci card that has usb plugs in it), but does anyone know how well those work with linux?

And if so, any recommanded brands/versions?

[XWRed1]

Probably. As long as its OHCI or UHCI compliant (maybe on the box, I don't know). Seems like everything is either one or the other.

[chaim79]

one quick question, wouldn't the usb card have the same problems with the fsb as your normal usb ports?

[gaccm]

no, i'm not sure why esactly, but the pci card seems to bypass the chipset failure. I guess the card does all the work, in case its used on a mobo where the chipset has no knowledge of USB.

In linux, how would something like that be called? would the pci card be transparent so i can just call /dev/PCIUSB0 /dev/PCIUSB1, etc. Or some wierd thing?

[XWRed1]

I would expect it to look just like the motherboard's usb, as far as Linux is concerned. The dev filenames will probably be incremented more or whatever, but thats not a big deal.