FedoraForum USB thread

Rick Stevens rstevens at vitalstream.com
Wed Mar 7 00:09:31 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 16:34 -0700, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote:
> I posted the following thread at fedoraforum.org and have seen no response. Do
> any of you folks know where to point me?
> 
> USB Fails on FC6 after update of?
> 
> There are some old threads on this, but they give an fdi solution that doesn't
> apply here, so I'm lost. Here's the deal:
> 
> To start, on my system currently I have no USB devices installed other than a
> USB mouse. I have SATA drives at sda and sdb, so the first USB device plugged
> in comes up as sdc[1]. This only affects my work desktop. My laptop and home
> desktop both run FC6 with regular updates and they work fine.
> 
> The automount never happens because the USB device isn't accepted when
> inserted. This started happening after I updated my PC from FC6 default respin
> from FedoraUnity.org 20070111. In other words, it worked fine after upgradeing
> from FC5 to FC6, but after a few days, quit working. Because of this, I can't
> sync my handheld, or use it as a memory stick, or use any memory sticks/flash
> drives, or an external USB hard disk or floppy drive.
> 
> Here's what I get in /var/log/messages when I plug in any USB device, other
> than my mouse, which works fine. Hmmm.. It's a 'low speed device':
> 
> Feb 27 15:43:19 lehi kernel: usb 4-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd
> and address 39
> Feb 27 15:43:19 lehi kernel: usb 4-6: device descriptor read/64, error -32
> Feb 27 15:43:20 lehi kernel: usb 4-6: device descriptor read/64, error -32
> Feb 27 15:43:20 lehi kernel: usb 4-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd
> and address 40
> Feb 27 15:43:20 lehi kernel: usb 4-6: device descriptor read/64, error -32
> Feb 27 15:43:21 lehi kernel: hub 4-0:1.0: Cannot enable port 6. Maybe the USB
> cable is bad?
> Feb 27 15:43:21 lehi kernel: usb 4-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd
> and address 41
> Feb 27 15:43:21 lehi kernel: usb 4-6: device not accepting address 41, error -32
> Feb 27 15:43:21 lehi kernel: usb 4-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd
> and address 42
> Feb 27 15:43:22 lehi kernel: usb 4-6: device not accepting address 42, error -32
> 
> I'm not sure where to look as the fdi issues discussed in other threads don't
> apply. I've never put gpartd, or any other partition manipulation software on
> this desktop PC and the fdi files don't exist that others removed to get
> things working again.

Hmmm.  There have been some issues with USB and later kernels on FC6.
Have you tried an earlier kernel, say one in the 2.6.18-series or
2.6.19-1.2911?

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