Powermac 6500 usb installation

[Ih8reno]

I recently added a usb PCI card to my powermac and upgraded the os to 9.1 in the hopes of making use of the USB ports. Nothing doing, I even installed the usb support files included in the os9 cd and still it isn't recognized. Anyone have any ideas on what I can do?

 

[Intell]

What chipset does the USB card have?

 

[Ih8reno]

Not entirely sure, I have it loaded in the powermac already. If it helps I got it out of a desktop powermac g3

 

[Intell]

Did it work correctly in the G3 with OS 9?

 

[Ih8reno]

Can't be 100% sure, I got it from a mac that was pretty junked out but the card looked like it was in good condition

 

[Intell]

Take the card out and look at the biggest chip on it. That should tell you what chipset it is by looking at the manufacturer of it.

 

[Ih8reno]

 

[Intell]

That does look like a OS 9 compatible card. Does it show up in System Information?

 

[Ih8reno]

I looked the card up and the company that made it says it was compatible. But when I try and download the link to install the drivers the link isn't good anymore.

 

[BittenApple]

I looked the card up and the company that made it says it was compatible. But when I try and download the link to install the drivers the link isn't good anymore.

Does it show up on Apple System Profiler?

 

[Ih8reno]

This is all that shows up

 

[Intell]

Try these drivers: ftp://ftp.mayn.de/pub/really_old_stuff/apple/apple/D-USB_Card_Support_1.4.1.smi.bin

 

[Ih8reno]

No difference unfortunately and hard to install as it installed in German

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Rechecked the system profiler here is what it finds

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Looked deeper and it says the extensions are disabled, any idea how to enable them?

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Duh! Extensions manager! Mouse just turned on and everything seems to work, thanks!