Edimax Technology EU-PC2C - Manual (Page 3)

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Introduction
Add a USB Cardbus device to your PC
Instantly add USB peripherals to your Notebook. Never open your computer case again after you have
your USB Port (PCMCIA) card installed and say good-bye to confusing cables.
The USB Port (Universal Serial Bus) allows you to instantly connect USB devices to your computer.
The USB Port will allow you to attach 2 USB devices instantly.
You never have to worry about running out of slots in your computer or those confusing IRQ’s again.
You can also “Hot Swap” your USB devices. What does this mean? You never have to power down
your PC to install hardware again. Gamers can switch joysticks on the fly. Welcome to the USB
Revolution.
1.0 USB Port Features
The CardBus is the trade name for an advanced PC Card (also known as PCMCIA
card) specification. It fits in a slot like a conventional PC card and 32-bit path is used
for data transfer. It supports the following I/O features:
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2 USB ports (root hub and two or four down stream function ports)
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Auto detect speeds and connections of devices
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Support High Speed Data Transfer Rates of up to 480 Mbps
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Integrated physical layer transceivers
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Normal and low power operating modes
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Fully Plug and Play compatible
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OHCI (Open Host Controller Interface) specification V1.0 register compatible
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USB specification V.1.0 compatible
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Provide one USB power cable
** If you use PCMCIA USB card. At normal time, you don’t need to use the USB power cable that you
connect to USB devices. Only in one case that system request more power and please use
that!
2.0 System Requirements
This setup program will install the driver for NEC USB 2.0 Host Controller. Before you
start to run the setup program, please make sure your computer is an IBM
PC-compatible system.