Hey there fellow neck-beards and grey-beards!

I have a motherboard with USB3.1 and I need to down clock it so its always 5 Gbit/s and never faster.

Is there any way to do this, my DuckDuckGo Fu is not finding the right combination of words.

I use Arch BTW…

Just kidding im still running Manjaro.

Thanks.

  • @infinitevalenceOPEnglish
    10•8 months ago

    I have a USB extender that wont run at any other speed, but its much faster than 2.0 so I would really like to get it working consistently.

    • Possibly linuxEnglish
      6•8 months ago

      The hub is malfunctioning then. USB devices register themselves and there capabilities on the bus.

      • @infinitevalenceOPEnglish
        2•8 months ago

        Not sure what you are suggesting… The issue im trying to fix is that this extender only passes 5Gbit/s so if I plug in something that can negotiate up to 10 or lower it will try to configure the lanes that way and the extender will fail.

        The only device I have managed to get working is a USB WD Elements HD. Everything else I have tried that should support 3.0 never connects.

        So I wanted to test to see if I could lock the port at 5Gbit/s to eliminate auto negotiation from my trouble shooting.

        • @cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          8•8 months ago

          Connect a 5gbps USB hub to your computer. Now you have a USB port that is limited to 5gbps to connect your extender to.

          • @infinitevalenceOPEnglish
            2•8 months ago

            ahh makes sense, I will see if I can find one!