Help! - USB HC TakeOver failed!

Thu Dec 9 02:12:48 UTC 2004

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 10:38:20 -0500, Ralph E. Kenyon, Jr.  
<diogenes at vgernet.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 03:36:00 -0500, Ralph E. Kenyon, Jr.
> <diogenes at vgernet.net> wrote:
>
>> At 2003-11-29 23:34, Jay Daniels wrote:
>>> On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 12:36:52PM -0500, Ralph E Kenyon Jr wrote:
>>> > Nobody answered this before.  Is this a really tough one?
>>> > Can anybody give suggestions?
>>> >
>>> > I'm brand new to Linux.  I have a socket 7 system on which I  
>>> installed Red
>>> > Hat 9, clean and alone, but the installation reports an error in the  
>>> USB
>>> > area.
>>> >
>>> > I'm getting "USB HC TakeOver failed!"
>>> >
>>> > A couple of weeks of searching and reading has not gotten me any  
>>> closer to
>>> > understanding what's wrong or how to fix it.
>>> >
>>>
>>> All else fails, you may want to try and use up2date to update to the
>>> current kernel.  On the i686 tree, it's version 2.4.20-20.9
>>>
>>> >From what I found at google, there was a kernel or module bug in the
>>> pre released version you are using that caused this exact problem!
>>>
>>> Anyway it's worth a shot.  I had good luck letting up2date update the
>>> kernel then rebooting.  You may want to try it on your system or
>>> you may want to investigate further.
>>>
>>> good luck,
>>>
>>> jay
>>
>> Thanks, Jay,
>>
>> It looks like my system board requires the i586 tree, since that's what  
>> got installed.
>>
>> I installed the 2.4.20.-20.9 kernel, but it had more problems.
>> After checking the Red hat site, I installed the 2.4.20-24.9 kernel,  
>> but it reports the same error as before.
>>
>> Could there be some other packages - USB packages - that might work?
>>
>> Ralph Kenyon
>>
>
> I'm now up2date with Kernel-2.4.20-31.9.legacy
>
> The chipset is SiS7001.
>
> I find that if I modprobe usb-ohci, the usb seems to function.
> It detects a hub I attached, and finds the Logitech tracball plugged in.
>
> The system, however, hangs on checking for new hardware on bootup if the
> usb hardware is plugged in.
>
> I've tried adding post-install usb-oihc /sbin/modprobe usb-ohic to
> /etc/modules.conf, but that does not solve the problem.
>
> Any suggestions for how I can try to get the system to recognize the usb
> HC on bootup?
>
> Thanks,
>

I found the following:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56567
While this bug is closed as "not a bug", it references a fix for the  
problem here:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/usb/2.5/usb-ohci-hcd-3-2.5.21.patch

It may be useful to note that Tiger Direct sold pre-loaded Redhat linux  
6.2 PC-100 systems with the SiS7001 chipset on board during 2000.  I  
bought one, so I really don't have any idea how to get the above fix in.  
My system was reloaded with Redhat 9, and I'm fully up2date with  
kernel-2.4.20-37.9.legacy.  The "problem" is still there.
I don't know how many Tiger Direct sold, but there may be a few more in  
service than the few I've seen reporting the problem.

Is there any possibility of getting this fix into the Redhat 9 legacy  
kernel? - other than on a do-it-yourself basis? (On which I wouldn't know  
where to begin.)

Thanks for any help anyone can offer.

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