Errors when using a LAN9514 USB hub/ethernet controller

I have a BeagleBone running a buildroot image I made, and I wanted to add the LAN9514 USB 2.0 and ethernet controller chip. I believe the Pi and the Beaglebone-XM incorporate the same hardware.

I've correctly connected everything (leaving off the optional eeprom) and I included the SMSC95XX as a module in buildroot for the driver. However, when booting with the new hardware connected, I see these errors:

[ 10.300000] usb 3-1: device descriptor read/64, error -62
[ 10.590000] usb 3-1: device descriptor read/64, error -62
[ 11.300000] usb 3-1: device not accepting address 4, error -62
[ 11.900000] usb 3-1: device not accepting address 5, error -62
[ 11.900000] usb usb3-port1: unable to enumerate USB device

Like the Beaglebone-XM, I have the PRTCTL pins from the LAN9514 connected to the input enable signals on a mosfet in order to control the 5v power to the USB ports. However, the PRTCTL are never being driven high, so no connected USB device can get power.

I'm wondering if there's something I'm missing (a device tree entry, maybe?) in order to make this work. It seems to me like the driver should tell the chip to reset to its default eeprom values and drive the pins high, but I think I must have skipped a step in order to bind the device to the driver properly.

http://elixir.free-electrons.com/lin...usb/smsc95xx.c

If anyone has any ideas, let me know. Thanks in advance!

It sounds like you've done a lot of work to try to get it to work, but a USB Ethernet hub is a fairly exotic piece of hardware. I wouldn't be surprised that a Linux distribution wouldn't support it.

Maybe you can scour the Internet for a better driver...

Why exactly do you need such a thing, don't you have a regular Ethernet port you can attach a switch/hub to? (I'm sure you have a very good reason, I'm just wondering what it is)

It's a product for retail, so the hub needs to integrated onto the PCB. I'm using the same kernel as the Beaglebone-XM which does have the same driver, so I don't see why it wouldn't work...