I agree...   Some case manufacturers provide 1x physical USB port on
their cases - but supply 'standard' 2x5 pin connectors for motherboards
that kick out 2x USB ports, (as per Peter's comments below).

You're best bet is to check on your motherboard manufacturer's site to
read the manual for your particular board. Once you know that it does
kick out support for two ports - the next stage is to wire up a second
port. Also, about the USB 2.0 bit that you mentioned - USB 2 is simply
the speed. There was the originally USB, (1), then they revised it to
make transfer speeds faster, (amongst other enhancements), and so dubbed
it USB 2.

Hope this helps..

Cheers,
Stuart

-----Original Message-----
From: pic microcontroller discussion list
[mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of Peter Moreton
Sent: 23 May 2004 11:46
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: ] Passive USB Hub


If the header is a HE14 2x5 pin jobbie, then there will be two USB
channels on the header. You should be able to split out the spare USB
channel.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pic microcontroller discussion list
> [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of Alexander Rice
> Sent: 23 May 2004 10:43
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: [EE:] Passive USB Hub
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> I know some of you out there have dabbled with usb so i thought this
> would be a good palce to ask.
>
> Inside my PC i have a USB header, this is already used to run my
> wireless lan card, but i want to add a memory reader to it - can i
> simply daisy-chain the two devices? It is Universal _Serial_ Bus
> after all right?
> Additionally, looking at the usb header it looks suspiciously
> like there
> are two usb channels there anyway, but the connector for the wlan card
> uses both of them - is this because it is usb 2 or for some
> other reason?
>
> Regards
>
> Alex Rice
>
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