FedoraForum USB thread

[Rick Stevens]

On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 22:07 -0700, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote:
> On Tue, March 6, 2007 5:09 pm, Rick Stevens wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> 2911 works. I just hate going backwards. It's like when I first started using
> FC5 and my sata_sil caused issues with mirrored drives and boot failures with
> any of the new kernels. After a few kernel updates, things settled down.
> 
> I may have to bite the backward bullet...

You're not alone.  There's been quite a flurry of complaints on
fedora-list.

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