Probe usb ports

Brief explanation
My son wants to install Wintendos so that he can play starcraft 2 on my new comp. But it doesn’t seem to work. Every time I try to install it the install breaks down with an error message like, no boot disc/media can be found. (This is after the install has started, a couple of minutes in.) I suspect that Microsoft doesn’t support usb 3.0 in their native distribution of win7, not sure though. And that my comp only has usb 3 ports.

How do I check what kind of hardware my comp is packing, specially USB ports.

Brief explanation
My son wants to install Wintendos so that he can play starcraft 2 on my new comp. But it doesn’t seem to work. Every time I try to install it the install breaks down with an error message like, no boot disc/media can be found. (This is after the install has started, a couple of minutes in.) I suspect that Microsoft doesn’t support usb 3.0 in their native distribution of win7, not sure though. And that my comp only has usb 3 ports.

How do I check what kind of hardware my comp is packing, specially USB ports.

If you open a terminal session and type lsusb, you can see if the term USB 3 appears. lsusb -v provides even more information:

lsusb
lsusb -v

The non terminal method is in YaST / Hardware / Hardware Information. As to Windows 7, you must indeed load a USB 3 driver to get it to work while Linux has native support for USB 3. You did not mention your openSUSE version as there were some hicups with USB 3.0 along the way. For instance, openSUSE 11.3 had a kernel version problem with USB 3.0 that kept it from being mounted from your fstab file. Of course, what Windows 7 does or does not do would only matter when running openSUSE in a Hyper-V session in Windows 7 I would guess or running Windows 7 in a VM under openSUSE. I can’t say what you would do in the latter case.

Thank You,

USB 3.0 did indeed pop up. Is there a way of printing only usb ports. The bash out was somewhat bloated…

Lol, I found the usb 2 port on my comp, at last. :shame: