[Cialug] OT: Making use of motherboard USB headers

[David Champion]

You can also get a USB hub. I found a cheap 8-port usb 2.0 hub at Best
Buy for like $9 a while back.

The nice thing about them is you can put your PC under your desk or
wherever... and have the USB hub somewhere more convenient.

-dc

Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:
> I recently built a new machine (running Linux, of course). The 
> motherboard has 4 USB ports on the back, but also some pins for 2 more. 
> Any idea where to get something to make use of the extra ports?
> 
> I assume what i need looks like a USB port on one end and a connector to 
> attach to the pins on the other, with some sort of cable in between. 
> However, so far i've not found something like that when looking through 
> the few parts catalogs i have. At the moment i don't have an actual 
> *need* for the extra ports, but it might be nice to put the extras on 
> the front of the case to make plugging in a flash drive more 
> convenient.
> 
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