on 4/3/00 6:04 am,  Derek Smith at dereksmi@... wrote:

> On Fri, 3 Mar 2000 BMichael@... wrote:
> 
>> I'll note that for $89 instead of $35, "pre-USB" Macs can have both
>> FireWire _and_ USB through the Orange Micro card. I'm now running a USB
>> mouse, an ADB trackpad and keyboard, SCSI scanner, SCSI printer, SCSI
>> CDRW, serial printer, internal IDE hard drive, and external FireWire hard
>> drive on a "beige" G3. Ethernet cable to AirPort lets an iBook mount the
>> G3's FireWire drive at almost "local drive" speed from anywhere in the
>> house or yard. Both share the modem built in to the AirPort for internet
>> access. No problems at all. <knock on head!>
> 
> Wow Bill, that's a fantastic setup!  I'm jealous :-)
> 
> *MY* Beige G3 has a Rage 128! Nyanyanya!

Well, *MY* Beige G3 runs at 466 Mhz, with 42Gb of storage,
so yah boo sucks to you.

But seriously folks, I've got a USB card in a PCI slot, and although it
works fine, there's a problem with the Apple USB Drivers that, if the
machine goes to sleep, won't let it wake up again - anyone know of a cure ?
Apple's work-around is "don't let the machine go to sleep". Hah !!

Phil