As I put my USB-Flashcard-Reader to work

The USB-flashcard-reader in question is a noname-product, costing 22 Euro.

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The PC runs eCS 1.01 and has 2 USB-controlers onbard (UHCI, meaning USB 1.1), chipset unknown.

These files are prerequesites:

	What for:	Version:	Date:	Source:
usbbasic.exe	Basic drivers for USB in general	-	22. 3. 2004	Serenity Homepage
	Installation: Copy usbbasic.exe to x:\os2\boot In this directory open a window session and type: usbbasic <enter> When encountering question 'replace equal-named file' answer YES.
usbs10135.zip	MSD-drivers (Mass-Storage-Devices, meaning all kinds of removable media, including LS-120, ZIP etc.	10.1035	24. 3. 2004	Serenity Homepage
	Installation: Unzip the file usbs10135.zip into (empty) temporary directory Open a window session and type: ddinstal <enter> Source-directory: the temporary directory, Target-directory: x:\os2\boot.
usbres.wpi	Ressource-Manager. Required for the function 'Refresh Removable Media' to work.	0.9.7	2004/01/26:	Hobbes
	Installation: You need the WarpIn-installer. (Get latest version here) To install: simply by drag-and-drop the file usbres.wpi onto the WarpIn-program-icon.

Older systems than eCS 1.01 may need an upgrade of OS/2-loader. More info about that: eCS-Homepage.

Entries in config.sys:

rem ++ not present in system BASEDEV=USBEHCD.SYS /V
rem ++ not present in system BASEDEV=USBOHCD.SYS /V
BASEDEV=USBUHCD.SYS /V
BASEDEV=USBUHCD.SYS /V     (1)
BASEDEV=USBD.SYS /V /REQ:USBUHCD$,USBOHCD$,USBEHCD$ /I13 (2)
BASEDEV=USBHID.SYS /V
BASEDEV=USBMSD.ADD /V /FLOPPIES:0 /REMOVABLES:6
BASEDEV=USBCDROM.ADD
DEVICE=C:\APPS\USBRES\USBRESMG.SYS

REM DEVICE=C:\OS2\BOOT\USBKBD.SYS        (3)
    DEVICE=C:\OS2\BOOT\USBMOUSE.SYS
REM DEVICE=C:\OS2\BOOT\USBCOM.SYS

Source for possible malfunction: Interrupts:

You may need to enter your BIOS-setting in order to make sure:

in general USB is enabled,
specially interrupt-handling is enabled for USB.

Notes on config.sys:

(1)	The entry BASEDEV=USBUHCD.SYS is needed as often as there are USB-UHCI-controlers in your system. To know the number of controlers run HCIMONIT (from a commandline session). The same hold for USB-2.0-controlers (= USBEHCD.SYS-entries).

(2)	The interrupt-specification (in this case: 13) is normally omitted, only in cases of problems you have to play around with some possible values.

(3)	This section has nothing to do with flashcard-readers, it is here just for the sake of completeness.

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