Initializing USB Controller hanging
Just installed redhat 8.0 as my third partition on my toshbia tecra 9100...install went fine so I rebooted into my linux partition and everthing went well, rebooted, then came back into linux 8.0, and it hangs on "Initializing USB Controller", shutdown the laptop because ctrl-d didn't work, then rebooted back in, and it works fine - basically every other boot into linux, it hangs on the "Initializing USB Controller" check. I took out my usb mouse to see if it would change, no change. Was wondering if anyone else had this problem and HOW to fix it? thx in advance
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I'd say it's a hardware issue, what type of controller is it?
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Initializing USB Controller
USB-UHCI.........still looking around to for people with similar problems...
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Ok there are two kernel modules for these controllers, one called 'usb-uhci' and one called 'uhci', find out which one is being used and see if the other one solves the problem.
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checked in the /etc/modules.conf file and the line:
alias usb-controller usb-uhci is listed so I am assuming I am using the usb-uhci module....how would I go about changing modules...thx |
Check to see that you have the alternative module available, ("modprobe -l" will list all available kernel modules and "modinfo <module-name>" will display specific info about the named module), change that line in /etc/modules.conf to "alias usb-controller uhci" and reboot untill you either see the same error or get bored, whatever comes first :-)
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changed modules...no go, still hangs at "Initializing USB Controller (uhci)" as it did with "Initializing USB Controller (usb-uhci)" ...hmmm, will keep looking....
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module info
filename: /lib/modules/2.4.18-14/kernel/drivers/usb/usb-uhci.o
description: "USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver" author: "Georg Acher, Deti Fliegl, Thomas Sailer, Roman Weissgaerber" license: "GPL" [root@localhost root]# modinfo uhci filename: /lib/modules/2.4.18-14/kernel/drivers/usb/uhci.o description: "USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver" author: "Linus 'Frodo Rabbit' Torvalds, Johannes Erdfelt, Randy Dunlap, Georg Acher, Deti Fliegl, Thomas Sailer, Roman Weissgaerber" license: "GPL" parm: debug int, description "Debug level" |
There's not a lot more you can do with a hardware problem like this.
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Bug in redhat 8.0 with Tecra 9100
I have found that there is a bug with the tecra 9100. USB initialization still hangs with the newest kernels after a reboot. I have also tried setting the bios to let the os handle devices. In addition I have tried using kudzu to reinstall the hardware, same problem results. I have also tried changing the module config file with no luck. Does anyone have a fix for this? I have also opened a bug report on bugzilla, but they have not been very helpful either. The only work around is to remove USB from modules config file and not use USB which is a real poor work around. I am currently running kernel 2.4.18. Also, if anyone has had problem with the keyboard repeating. Uncomment XkbDisable in the XF86Config file and this should fix your problem.
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Initializing USB Controller (usb-uhci) hangs
I installed Red Hat Linux 8. First boot up and many subsequent bootup failed at:
Initializing USB Controller (usb-uhci). Reboot (power off and on), again and sometimes, system comes up and sometimes hangs..... I looked at /etc/modules.conf file and this is what I found.... alias usb-controller1 usb-uhci I took out 1 from controller and saved the file. Reboot and the system didn't even hang once....... subaschan. |
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