USB on Linux

[Derek Broughton]

Neil Winchurst wrote:

> Recently I had a look at my USB ports on my computer. This computer was
> built to my specs last year.
> 
> I have four ports. I used kinfocenter to look at them. Three of them
> report as USB1.10.  The fourth one reports as USB2.0. Today I asked
> about this in the shop and I am assured that all the USB ports should
> be showing as USB2.0.
> 
> I am wondering if this is simply kubuntu (or Linux) misreading
> something, or for some reason failing to recognise three of them. Can
> anyone throw a little light on this please?

I'm no expert, but it seems to me that I have only ever had 1 port show up
as USB2, and _four_ show as USB1 - even though I have only four ports. 
Since all of them seem to function identically, I just assumed that you
only see one reported USB2 device, which just happens to have four
connections. Since USB1 and USB2 are handled through different drivers,
they aren't necessarily reported in the same way.
-- 
derek