Nano + USB 2.0 card = 0

Hi,
Just bought my wife a nano. It's simply as cool as it gets. The color screen is great for ease of use.
However, it will not work at all with my iogear usb 2.0 card (in a PM G4 dual 1.25 running 10.3.9). The card is new and works with a FW/USB2.0 external HDD. At first I dismissed that the card could be the issue, but after poking around here, it seems it might be.
The symptom is a freeze with the ipod updater and itunes and system profiler and disk utility. all have to be force quit to restart.
The nano does work with my USB 1 port and on my wife's ibook usb 1 port. So, the nano appears to be okay.
Is this possible that it will not work with a 2.0 card that otherwise works?
Is there a card that will work???
Thanks,
David

Sorry, I didn't mean to bum you out, but I'm sure you would have discovered this problem eventually. There are postings all over this board and all over the web on usb 2.0 compatibility and Tiger. Most of the postings are from G4 users whose Macs didn't come with the 2.0 spec. A lot of people are beginning to buy 2.0 cards for their G4s to accomodate their nifty new Nanos, only to discover the addition of the usb 2.0 card has made their Mac buggy. It's not just Nanos, but almost any storage device seems to cause problems if it's left plugged in when the Mac goes to sleep. Of course, the usual finger-pointing and blaming the problem on the other party is happening - Apple vs. card manufacturers. Whoever fixes the problem will sell a lot of usb 2.0 cards!

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