It goes under various names, here are a few I found: There are different variations of the rotating/swivel hubs, watch the discussion about swivel hub wiring diagrams to find a hub with good build quality and provides 500 mA per port. The one I found on Ebay was a Somytec mini USB 2.0 hub with four rotating connections and one upstream connection sticking out from its side, also a red power LED and external power connector.
Not having to deal with the webcam or wifi disabled in the BIOS affecting the USB hookup (unconfirmed if USB is also disabled)įor the type of hub, I went for as small as I could find.Disable the USB-ports in BIOS and disable all the new internally installed USB devices.Be able to use mini PCI-express cards based on USB later.The reason I choose to hook into the USB-port and leave the spare mini PCI-express USB connection alone is that I want to: More information about USB hubs over at Wikipedia. Having two storage devices, flash drive and SD card reader, on the same upstream connection is not a good idea speed-wise, therefore I put one on a separate hub. By installing two new USB hubs, I got 6 free internal USB connections I could use for devices (2x USB hubs = 8 ports, minus 2x on-board USB-ports = 6 ports).
The on-board port I hooked into was then connected back to the USB hub. I looped into the regular USB-ports and routed the D+/D- signals from the southbridge (IO controller) to each USB hub. To install USB devices internally, more USB connections were needed.
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