New install of 11.2, no USB at all

BobNutfield · 06-18-2010, 01:21 PM

Hello Everyone,

This is an ongoing saga. I have other threads here about trying to get 11.2 installed for my friend who I am trying to introduce to Linux. He finally agreed to just wipe the drive and the install went fine. However, I find that none of the four USB ports work. There are messages from dmesg about the attempt to set up the USB but "failed to accept" is the reported error. This is a new one for me. Unfortunately, I do not have the laptop with me now and I must try to find out what I can do an relay the information to him.

Has anyone ever experience this and do you know a fix? Typing lsusb in a terminal works, and the four ports are identified, but no device plugged in is even recognized and if I type lsusb while a device is plugged in, it hangs the terminal.

Anyone with any ideas? All help appreciated.

Bob

mazinoz · 06-18-2010, 04:41 PM

Could it be the laptop has old USB ports that don't recognise USB 2.0 drives?

Larry Webb · 06-18-2010, 08:52 PM

You might try an older version, I know the newer kernel has changed some of its routing and does not work with some of the legacy chipsets.

hassiya · 06-19-2010, 02:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mazinoz

Could it be the laptop has old USB ports that don't recognise USB 2.0 drives?

Yes, I though of that, and I believe they are version 1.1. But, oddly, if I append the kernel line with acpi=off, the USB ports work, but the internal wireless stops being even recognized. Without that append, the wireless works, but the USB ports do not. There has to be a workaround for this.

Thanks for your reply.

Bob

By the way, I encouraged him to register for this formum, and I am posting on his behalf frommy home.

mazinoz · 06-19-2010, 08:41 PM

Sounds like what was once known as an IRQ conflict, ie: devices competing for same interrupt.
Just for fun you might like to check out the BIOS settings and see if USB ports and wireless have same interrupts etc, hence conflict.

BobNutfield · 06-20-2010, 04:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mazinoz

Sounds like what was once known as an IRQ conflict, ie: devices competing for same interrupt.
Just for fun you might like to check out the BIOS settings and see if USB ports and wireless have same interrupts etc, hence conflict.

Thanks, but that was first port of call. The BIOS in this old laptop does not offer any setting changes except for date, memory sharing with graphics, and startup device. A really simple BIOS. Also, the BIOS does not have any updates as far as I can tell from the PACKARD BELL website. Looks like the same version (R1000) is still there.

The problem it appears is ACPI. It may be that I have found a machine that is not capable of running the newer Linuxes.

Bob