[SimeyTheLimey]

I posted this over in the Peripherals forum, and got zero responses. Because one of my questions is specifically OS related, I guess it is permissible to ask it here too. Fingers crossed!

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I have a couple of questions. I just picked up a couple of Iogear PCI cards to add some ports to my computer. The USB 2.0 port card works fine in my Quicksilver 2002, but the firewire card seems to cause sleep problems.

The drives spin down, the lights pulse, and the screen goes black; but the fan stays on and the mouse stays powered. On reawakening the system freezes. Removing the firewire card solves the problem.

I didn't know about these sleep issues before. A search of Iogear's support page brought up a claim that the problem is with Apple architecture. See here. Apple's support pages claim the problem is with non compliant cards. See here. Searching the forum archives didn't give me the information I want.

So: first question is who is right?

Second question: are there any fixes?

Third question: if not, is this the kind of issue that Tiger might fix?

Ta!

[Big Mac]

It's possible that Tiger could fix the issue with updated drivers, but I would not exactly say that the probability of that happening is good. Usually issues such as those require driver updates from the distributer of the card in question.

[SimeyTheLimey]

Originally posted by Big Mac:
It's possible that Tiger could fix the issue with updated drivers, but I would not exactly say that the probability of that happening is good. Usually issues such as those require driver updates from the distributer of the card in question.

That sucks. The manufacturer claims it is Apple's fault and they don't provide a driver for OS-X at all (it's supposed to be part of the OS). It's probably not worth the hassle of sending it back, so I guess I just wasted $24 on the card.

Eventually I will get a G5. Maybe it will work on that.

[SimeyTheLimey]

Tiger fixed it!