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I installed Slackware 12 on my PB EasyNote today. But now, Houston, we have a problem...
At first it seemed my printer (an HP, but that is besides the point) didn't install. After some troubleshooting, I found Slack no longer provides access to my USB ports. No USB-device seemed to work.
I wasn't totally unprepared to deal with the new udev and HAL. And I expected Slack to have everything off by default. I've run Ubuntu on this machine too, so I'm not totally unfamilliar with the 2.6 kernel and udev. But then, Ubuntu defaults to having everything switched on so it's not the same situation all together.
Anyway. I made my own user account member of both cdrom and plugdev groups. But the problem even remains when I'm logged in as root.
dmesg does not mention anything related to USB-devices.
lsusb comes up with:
root@BEAST:/ #lsusb
Bus 4 Device 1: ID 0000:0000
Bus 1 Device 1: ID 0000:0000
Bus 3 Device 1: ID 0000:0000
Bus 2 Device 1: ID 0000:0000
root@BEAST:/ #
ls -lR /dev/disk mentions only my Hard Disks.
But the simple ls /dev doesn't list any of my other devices, be they plugged in or not. The (newly discovered ) /media/*... nothing, just empty directories
/etc/udev/rules.d contains no USB storage device rules or anything to do with printers.
ps shows the udev deamon is running. But the system remains deaf to anything I plug in. And there lies my question. Everything I've been able to find on the matter in the last hour (and a half) shows that everything now is automated.
On boot, I do get lots of error messages when I have a USB device plugged in. It goes by real quick, but from what I catch there are some complaints of the USB device not responding to an IRQ. Perhaps therein lies the problem?
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I'm about to reach the conclusion that the kernel just doesn't notice my USB ports. And since I installed the (default) 2.6.21.5-smp kernel (the big one) I don't know where to look next.
Now I have to get away from my lappy and into the sunlight (IT BURNS!!!), to earn me some money. Thanks for reading, and please leave a post after the beep. Beep.
This is strange for me,since i tried Slack 12 and everything is ok !
Yeah. I expect some troubleshooting, but a kernel not responding at all seems weird to me. You would at least expect to get an error message I'd think.
Quote:
Originally Posted by aliov
have a look to the /etc/rc.d and be sure that you have the rc.udev ,rc.dbus ,rc.hal executable if not chmod +x to each one.
Good point. rc.udev is up and running. rc.hal is called rc.hald on my system, but that is consistent with the nomenclature of rc.M. And rc.dbus is called rc.messagebus in my system. Again consistent with rc.M
All are up and running. The weird thing is, on my previous system (Slack 11 that is) the light of my USB stick came on when I inserted it. More precise, it blinked once, and then it lit up continually. This was always so, if the device was mounted or not.
Now, it blinks once and stays off. It's like it's not getting any juice. I think that's weird.
I dunno, what would be a good place to look?
EDIT: Did a clean reinstall, but the problem remains.
I did get to see an error message, something with bug
dmesg | grep bug
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKA] disabled and referenced, BIOS bug
usbmon: debugfs is not available
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKC] disabled and referenced, BIOS bug
when you plug you usb and run lsusb nothing appear ?
Why SMP ,do you have dual processor ? if not use the kernel huge with it's module, i don't it's the first time in my life i see something like your problem,but i believe that we still miss something.
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when you plug you usb and run lsusb nothing appear ?
Nothing. It's as though the ports are dead.
Quote:
Originally Posted by aliov
Why SMP ,do you have dual processor ? if not use the kernel huge with it's module, i don't it's the first time in my life i see something like your problem,but i believe that we still miss something.
Nope, single processor. I use the 2.6.21.5-smp kernel because, you'd think I'm crazy, I didn't get to choose a kernel during install. It didn't occur to me the first time I installed, but the second time I really was looking for the 'kernel chooser'.
On a side note. I had run Slack 11 with the 2.6HUGE kernel before, and it did nothing but spit out error messages. It did not work at all. Ubuntu too spend it's first seconds of boot giving error messages. Ubuntu ran pretty good on my system, so there was nothing fatal. But in these error messages I've read complaints about pci, aspi, and the likes, just as I do now during boot.
The 2.4 kernel never gave any error. So that narrows it down I guess. It could be the kernel, it could be the BIOS and it could perhaps also be the motherboard.
I've tried to change the BIOS settings, as I understood there may lay a problem. But my BIOS doesn't really provide any advanced settings to change. Only boot order and assignment of shared memory.
I don't know if it's any use to someone, except to clutter this tread but I've posted the output of lspci -v and lsusb -v
lspci -v
Code:
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN400/PM880 Host Bridge
Subsystem: Unknown device 1631:c015
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 8
Memory at a0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
Capabilities: [80] AGP version 3.5
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN400/PM880 Host Bridge
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN400/PM880 Host Bridge
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN400/PM880 Host Bridge
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN400/PM880 Host Bridge
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN400/PM880 Host Bridge
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 0000c000-0000dfff
Memory behind bridge: c0000000-cfffffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 90000000-9fffffff
Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 2
00:06.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2500 802.11g Cardbus/mini-PCI (rev 01)
Subsystem: RaLink Unknown device 2560
Flags: slow devsel
Memory at 20000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=8K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Unknown device 1631:c015
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 22, IRQ 11
I/O ports at 1200 [size=32]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Unknown device 1631:c015
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 22, IRQ 7
I/O ports at 1220 [size=32]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Unknown device 1631:c015
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 22, IRQ 5
I/O ports at 1240 [size=32]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Unknown device 1631:c015
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 22, IRQ 10
Memory at 20002000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
Subsystem: Unknown device 1631:c015
Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: Unknown device 1631:c015
Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
[virtual] Memory at 000001f0 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=8]
[virtual] Memory at 000003f0 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=1]
[virtual] Memory at 00000170 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=8]
[virtual] Memory at 00000370 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=1]
I/O ports at 1100 [size=16]
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
Subsystem: Unknown device 1631:c015
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 18
I/O ports at e000 [size=256]
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
00:11.6 Communication controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 80)
Subsystem: Unknown device 1631:c015
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 5
I/O ports at e100 [size=256]
Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 74)
Subsystem: Unknown device 1631:c015
Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 128, IRQ 17
I/O ports at e200 [size=256]
Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. S3 Unichrome Pro VGA Adapter (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Unknown device 1631:c015
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
Memory at 90000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Memory at c0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at 94000000 [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [70] AGP version 2.0
lsusb -v
Code:
Bus 1 Device 1: ID 0000:0000
Device Descriptor:
bLength 18
bDescriptorType 1
bcdUSB 2.00
bDeviceClass 9 Hub
bDeviceSubClass 0 Unused
bDeviceProtocol 1 Single TT
bMaxPacketSize0 64
idVendor 0x0000
idProduct 0x0000
bcdDevice 2.06
iManufacturer 3 Linux 2.6.21.5-smp ehci_hcd
iProduct 2 EHCI Host Controller
iSerial 1 0000:00:10.3
bNumConfigurations 1
Configuration Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 2
wTotalLength 25
bNumInterfaces 1
bConfigurationValue 1
iConfiguration 0
bmAttributes 0xe0
Self Powered
Remote Wakeup
MaxPower 0mA
Interface Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 4
bInterfaceNumber 0
bAlternateSetting 0
bNumEndpoints 1
bInterfaceClass 9 Hub
bInterfaceSubClass 0 Unused
bInterfaceProtocol 0 Full speed (or root) hub
iInterface 0
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN
bmAttributes 3
Transfer Type Interrupt
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0004 1x 4 bytes
bInterval 12
Hub Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 41
nNbrPorts 6
wHubCharacteristic 0x000a
No power switching (usb 1.0)
Per-port overcurrent protection
TT think time 8 FS bits
bPwrOn2PwrGood 10 * 2 milli seconds
bHubContrCurrent 0 milli Ampere
DeviceRemovable 0x00
PortPwrCtrlMask 0xff
Hub Port Status:
Port 1: 0001.0100 C_CONNECT power
Port 2: 0001.0100 C_CONNECT power
Port 3: 0001.0100 C_CONNECT power
Port 4: 0000.0100 power
Port 5: 0000.0100 power
Port 6: 0000.0100 power
Device Status: 0x0003
Self Powered
Remote Wakeup Enabled
Bus 4 Device 1: ID 0000:0000
Device Descriptor:
bLength 18
bDescriptorType 1
bcdUSB 1.10
bDeviceClass 9 Hub
bDeviceSubClass 0 Unused
bDeviceProtocol 0 Full speed (or root) hub
bMaxPacketSize0 64
idVendor 0x0000
idProduct 0x0000
bcdDevice 2.06
iManufacturer 3 Linux 2.6.21.5-smp uhci_hcd
iProduct 2 UHCI Host Controller
iSerial 1 0000:00:10.2
bNumConfigurations 1
Configuration Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 2
wTotalLength 25
bNumInterfaces 1
bConfigurationValue 1
iConfiguration 0
bmAttributes 0xe0
Self Powered
Remote Wakeup
MaxPower 0mA
Interface Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 4
bInterfaceNumber 0
bAlternateSetting 0
bNumEndpoints 1
bInterfaceClass 9 Hub
bInterfaceSubClass 0 Unused
bInterfaceProtocol 0 Full speed (or root) hub
iInterface 0
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN
bmAttributes 3
Transfer Type Interrupt
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0002 1x 2 bytes
bInterval 255
Hub Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 41
nNbrPorts 2
wHubCharacteristic 0x000a
No power switching (usb 1.0)
Per-port overcurrent protection
bPwrOn2PwrGood 1 * 2 milli seconds
bHubContrCurrent 0 milli Ampere
DeviceRemovable 0x00
PortPwrCtrlMask 0xff
Hub Port Status:
Port 1: 0000.0100 power
Port 2: 0000.0100 power
Device Status: 0x0003
Self Powered
Remote Wakeup Enabled
Bus 3 Device 1: ID 0000:0000
Device Descriptor:
bLength 18
bDescriptorType 1
bcdUSB 1.10
bDeviceClass 9 Hub
bDeviceSubClass 0 Unused
bDeviceProtocol 0 Full speed (or root) hub
bMaxPacketSize0 64
idVendor 0x0000
idProduct 0x0000
bcdDevice 2.06
iManufacturer 3 Linux 2.6.21.5-smp uhci_hcd
iProduct 2 UHCI Host Controller
iSerial 1 0000:00:10.1
bNumConfigurations 1
Configuration Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 2
wTotalLength 25
bNumInterfaces 1
bConfigurationValue 1
iConfiguration 0
bmAttributes 0xe0
Self Powered
Remote Wakeup
MaxPower 0mA
Interface Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 4
bInterfaceNumber 0
bAlternateSetting 0
bNumEndpoints 1
bInterfaceClass 9 Hub
bInterfaceSubClass 0 Unused
bInterfaceProtocol 0 Full speed (or root) hub
iInterface 0
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN
bmAttributes 3
Transfer Type Interrupt
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0002 1x 2 bytes
bInterval 255
Hub Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 41
nNbrPorts 2
wHubCharacteristic 0x000a
No power switching (usb 1.0)
Per-port overcurrent protection
bPwrOn2PwrGood 1 * 2 milli seconds
bHubContrCurrent 0 milli Ampere
DeviceRemovable 0x00
PortPwrCtrlMask 0xff
Hub Port Status:
Port 1: 0000.0100 power
Port 2: 0000.0100 power
Device Status: 0x0003
Self Powered
Remote Wakeup Enabled
Bus 2 Device 1: ID 0000:0000
Device Descriptor:
bLength 18
bDescriptorType 1
bcdUSB 1.10
bDeviceClass 9 Hub
bDeviceSubClass 0 Unused
bDeviceProtocol 0 Full speed (or root) hub
bMaxPacketSize0 64
idVendor 0x0000
idProduct 0x0000
bcdDevice 2.06
iManufacturer 3 Linux 2.6.21.5-smp uhci_hcd
iProduct 2 UHCI Host Controller
iSerial 1 0000:00:10.0
bNumConfigurations 1
Configuration Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 2
wTotalLength 25
bNumInterfaces 1
bConfigurationValue 1
iConfiguration 0
bmAttributes 0xe0
Self Powered
Remote Wakeup
MaxPower 0mA
Interface Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 4
bInterfaceNumber 0
bAlternateSetting 0
bNumEndpoints 1
bInterfaceClass 9 Hub
bInterfaceSubClass 0 Unused
bInterfaceProtocol 0 Full speed (or root) hub
iInterface 0
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN
bmAttributes 3
Transfer Type Interrupt
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0002 1x 2 bytes
bInterval 255
Hub Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 41
nNbrPorts 2
wHubCharacteristic 0x000a
No power switching (usb 1.0)
Per-port overcurrent protection
bPwrOn2PwrGood 1 * 2 milli seconds
bHubContrCurrent 0 milli Ampere
DeviceRemovable 0x00
PortPwrCtrlMask 0xff
Hub Port Status:
Port 1: 0000.0100 power
Port 2: 0000.0100 power
Device Status: 0x0003
Self Powered
Remote Wakeup Enabled
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