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Are Universal Serial Bus (USB) devices supported?

April 26, 2017bus Devices serial supported universal USB

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Are Universal Serial Bus (USB) devices supported?

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Solaris 8 supports USB, including Plug and Play. However, not all devices attached to USB are supported. The HCL lists supported devices (see the answer about the HCL, above).

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Solaris 8 supports USB. However, not all devices attached to USB are supported. The HCL lists supported devices (see the answer about the HCL, above). Also, there are three different types of USB host controllers, and Solaris x86 (8 or 9) supports only one: * USB 1.1 UHCI is supported by Solaris x86, but not Solaris SPARC. * USB 1.1 OHCI: not supported by Solaris x86, supported by Solaris SPARC (with the Solaris USB DDK v0.8a). * USB 2.0 EHCI is not supported by Solaris 9. It might be supported in a future Solaris release. On Solaris 8 SPARC, install patch 109896-19. Run the command “prtconf -pv | grep 000c03”. If there’s no output from that command, your machine dosn’t have USB :-(. If there’s a “class-code: 000c0300” line, you have UHCI USB and it should be possible to use USB devices under Solaris x86. If there’s a “class-code: 000c0310” line you have an OHCI USB controller, which is not supported with Solaris 8/9 x86. And “class-code: 000c0320” is an EHCI (USB v2) controller. So, i

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Solaris 8 supports USB. However, not all devices attached to USB are supported. The HCL lists supported devices (see the answer about the HCL, above). Also, there are three different types of USB host controllers, and Solaris x86 (8 or 9) supports only one: * USB 1.1 UHCI is supported by Solaris x86, but not Solaris SPARC. * USB 1.1 OHCI: not supported by Solaris x86, supported by Solaris SPARC (with the Solaris USB DDK v0.8a). * USB 2.0 EHCI is not supported by Solaris. It might be supported in Solaris 10. On Solaris 8 SPARC, install patch 109896-19. Run the command “prtconf -pv | grep 000c03”. If there’s no output from that command, your machine dosn’t have USB :-(. If there’s a “class-code: 000c0300” line, you have UHCI USB and it should be possible to use USB devices under Solaris x86. If there’s a “class-code: 000c0310” line you have an OHCI USB controller, which is not supported with Solaris 8/9 x86. And “class-code: 000c0320” is an EHCI (USB v2) controller. So, if your USB contr

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Solaris 8 supports USB. However, not all devices attached to USB are supported. The HCL lists supported devices (see the answer about the HCL, above).

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Solaris 7 does not support USB. It’s low-level Device Assistant recognizes the presence of USB, but the Solaris Operating System has no USB support, and as a corollary, no support for USB-attached devices. Sun is involved with the USB umbrella organization and has advertised for programmers working on USB, so presumably USB will be supported by Solaris x86 in a future release. Keep an eye out on http://www.Sun.COM/io/ and http://www.Sun.