Well mates, I have an onboard VIA USB 1.1 controller and a PCMCIA 2ports NEC USB 2.0. I'd like as well to solve that problem, so if you know the solution for that it's welcome. Anyway, the most important thing for me at the moment it's to get access to my drive even if I have to use USB 1.1 temporally.

Below the trace of lspci command:

00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev 80)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP]
00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 42)
00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/B/686A/B PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 1a)
00:07.4 Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40)
00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
00:09.0 Communication controller: Conexant HSF 56k HSFi Modem (rev 01)
00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. VT8636A [ProSavage KN133] AGP4X VGA Controller (TwisterK) (rev 01)
02:00.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 41)
02:00.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 41)
02:00.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 02)


Lots of thanks to all!!

If the drive is capable of running at USB 1.1 then plug it in to your onboard port. If all is well you should see drive details if you scan the output of dmesg and the RH hardware GUI.

You will need to add NTFS support if you haven't already done so.

And just mount it as previously posted.

I missed the cb_alloc line in the dmesg... okay, this is a laptop and a cardbus card... what kind of laptop, the thing seems to be miss-allocating IRQs and getting really confused with loading ehci against a cardbus card.

Cheers,

Finegan

Michaelk, as you can see at the begginig of the dmesg trace I put, NTFS is already installed. Besides, the lsusb trace I put belongs to the one I get when I connected my drive to my onboard USB 1.1 controller (It works perfectly under Windows XP). I'll try to put a complete trace of dsmesg connecting my drive to this USB port, since I'm not sure if it was when I got the one I put. I'll post it later. I think I've already tried what you suggest but I continues without working at all. Anyway, I'll try it again at the same time I get the dmesg trace I've promised you...

Well Finegan, I know my laptop isn't perfectly configured but I don't know if that might affect to my problem. It's very likely you know it better than me. I have a Compaq Presario 725EA. All details about chips are above in the dmesg, lspci and lsusb traces I put. Anyway, if you need to know anything else, just let me know.

Just thank you all of you for the time you are spending helping me with this neverending problem. Cheers mates!

Here there you are, dmesg trace I told you:

Linux version 2.4.20 (root@82-X-Y-Z.cable.ubr12.edin.blueyonder.co.uk) (gcc versión 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)) #12 lun jul 21 20:55:50 CEST 2003
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009e800 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009e800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000c0000 - 00000000000cc000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000dc000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000def0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000def0000 - 000000000deff000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000000deff000 - 000000000df00000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000000df00000 - 000000000e000000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
224MB LOWMEM available.
ACPI: have wakeup address 0xc0001000
On node 0 totalpages: 57344
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 53248 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 PTLTD ) @ 0x000f6dd0
ACPI: RSDT (v001 PTLTD RSDT 01540.00000) @ 0x0defb5f9
ACPI: FADT (v001 COMPAQ EAGLES 01540.00000) @ 0x0defee74
ACPI: SSDT (v001 PTLTD POWERNOW 01540.00000) @ 0x0defeee8
ACPI: DSDT (v001 COMAPQ EAGLES 01540.00000) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: Vendor "COMAPQ" System " EAGLES" Revision 0x6040000 has a known ACPI BIOS problem.
ACPI: Reason: SCI issues (C2 disabled). This is a recoverable error
ACPI: BIOS passes blacklist
Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/hda3
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 1295.557 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 2582.11 BogoMIPS
Memory: 224084k/229376k available (1542k kernel code, 4836k reserved, 519k data, 84k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line)
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After generic, caps: 0383f9ff c1c3f9ff 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0383f9ff c1c3f9ff 00000000 00000000
CPU: AMD mobile AMD Athlon(tm) 4 1500+ stepping 02
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20021212
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd7ae, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
ACPI-0263: *** Info: GPE Block0 defined as GPE0 to GPE15
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: System [ACPI] (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Disabling VIA memory write queue (PCI ID 0305, rev 80): [55] 3c & 1f -> 1c
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs *4)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs *5)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs *9)
ACPI: Embedded Controller [EC] (gpe 6)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: if you experience problems, try using option 'pci=noacpi' or even 'acpi=off'

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....
Applying VIA southbridge workaround.
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
NTFS driver v1.1.22 [Flags: R/O]
ACPI: AC Adapter [AC] (on-line)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present)
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1 C2, 16 throttling states)
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686b (rev 42) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci00:07.1
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1840-0x1847, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1848-0x184f, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddio
hda: IC25N020ATCS04-0, ATA DISK drive
hdc: SD-R2102, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
blk: queue c03412e4, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hda: 39070080 sectors (20004 MB) w/1768KiB Cache, CHS=2432/255/63, UDMA(100)
hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, DMA
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 >
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.26
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xce80b000, 00:08:02:2e:b8:8f, IRQ 11
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 177M
agpgart: Detected Via Apollo Pro KT133 chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xec000000
Via 686a audio driver 1.9.1
via82cxxx: timeout while reading AC97 codec (0xAA0000)
via82cxxx: timeout while reading AC97 codec (0x800000)
via82cxxx: timeout while reading AC97 codec (0xBC0000)
ac97_codec: AC97 codec, id: ADS99(Unknown)
via82cxxx: board #1 at 0x1000, IRQ 5

IT CONTINUES IN THE NEXT POST...

...
Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
Yenta IRQ list 0088, PCI irq11
Socket status: 30000020
uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x1800, IRQ 9
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 32768)
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
cs: cb_alloc(bus 2): vendor 0x1033, device 0x0035
PCI: Enabling device 02:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
PCI: Enabling device 02:00.1 (0000 -> 0002)
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin B of device 02:00.1PCI: Enabling device 02:00.2 (0000 -> 0002)
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin C of device 02:00.2<6>kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 84k freed
hub.c: new USB device 00:07.2-2, assigned address 2
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x5e3/0x702) is not claimed by any active driver.
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,3), internal journal
Adding Swap: 457812k swap-space (priority -1)
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,2), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
eth0: Setting 100mbps full-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 45e1.
cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!

And that's the whole trace. I hope it to be useful for you..

See you around!

Check to see you have the usb-storage and scsi_mod modules loaded.

After doing /sbin/lsmod command I get that:

Module Size Used by Not tainted
mousedev 5332 1
keybdev 2880 0 (unused)

If you meant if I have USB Mass Storage support selected in USB support options when I execute 'make xconfig', it is. I have as well SCSI support and SCSI disk support selected. I have all of these three options selected as a module. So, I don't know why they don't appear in the trace when I type 'lsmod' command. Just in case you might have any doubt, after select all these options. I did

'make dep'
'make modules module-install'
'make bzImage'

And this is the kernel I'm currently using...

Well, as all of you see, the problem is being quite hard to solve. Do you think we'll beat it??!!

Thanks to all!!

So you built them as modules.

Try loading them with modprobe

BTW is the drive plugged in?

Yes , I did. Below you have another trace:

[bash]# /sbin/modprobe -c
# Generated by modprobe -c (2.4.22)
path[boot]=/lib/modules/boot
path[toplevel]=/lib/modules/2.4.20
path[toplevel]=/lib/modules/2.4
path[kernel]=/lib/modules/kernel
path[fs]=/lib/modules/fs
path[net]=/lib/modules/net
path[scsi]=/lib/modules/scsi
path[block]=/lib/modules/block
path[cdrom]=/lib/modules/cdrom
path[ipv4]=/lib/modules/ipv4
path[ipv6]=/lib/modules/ipv6
path[sound]=/lib/modules/sound
path[fc4]=/lib/modules/fc4
path[video]=/lib/modules/video
path[misc]=/lib/modules/misc
path[pcmcia]=/lib/modules/pcmcia
path[atm]=/lib/modules/atm
path[usb]=/lib/modules/usb
path[ide]=/lib/modules/ide
path[ieee1394]=/lib/modules/ieee1394
path[mtd]=/lib/modules/mtd
# Prune
prune modules.dep
prune modules.description
prune modules.generic_string
prune modules.pcimap
prune modules.isapnpmap
prune modules.usbmap
prune modules.parportmap
prune modules.ieee1394map
prune modules.pnpbiosmap
prune System.map
prune .config
prune Kerntypes
prune build
prune vmlinux
prune vmlinuz
prune bzImage
prune zImage
prune .rhkmvtag
# Above
above hid keybdev mousedev
above usbmouse hid
above wacom evdev
# Below
below ov518_decomp ov511

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...
# Aliases
alias binfmt-0000 off
alias binfmt-204 binfmt_aout
alias binfmt-263 binfmt_aout
alias binfmt-264 binfmt_aout
alias binfmt-267 binfmt_aout
alias binfmt-387 binfmt_aout
alias binfmt-332 iBCS
alias binfmt--310 binfmt_java
alias block-major-1 rd
alias block-major-2 off
alias block-major-3 ide-probe-mod
alias block-major-7 loop
alias block-major-8 sd_mod
alias block-major-9 md
alias block-major-11 sr_mod
alias block-major-13 xd
alias block-major-15 cdu31a
alias block-major-16 gscd
alias block-major-17 optcd
alias block-major-18 sjcd
alias block-major-20 mcdx
alias block-major-22 ide-probe-mod
alias block-major-23 mcd
alias block-major-24 sonycd535
alias block-major-25 sbpcd
alias block-major-26 sbpcd
alias block-major-27 sbpcd
alias block-major-29 aztcd
alias block-major-32 cm206
alias block-major-33 ide-probe-mod
alias block-major-34 ide-probe-mod
alias block-major-37 ide-tape
alias block-major-44 ftl
alias block-major-46 pcd
alias block-major-47 pf
alias block-major-56 ide-probe-mod
alias block-major-57 ide-probe-mod
alias block-major-58 lvm-mod
.....

...
alias block-major-88 ide-probe-mod
alias block-major-89 ide-probe-mod
alias block-major-90 ide-probe-mod
alias block-major-91 ide-probe-mod
alias block-major-93 nftl
alias block-major-97 pg
alias char-major-4 serial
alias char-major-5 serial
alias char-major-6 lp
alias char-major-9 st
alias char-major-10 off
alias char-major-10-0 busmouse
alias char-major-10-1 off
alias char-major-10-2 msbusmouse
alias char-major-10-3 atixlmouse
alias char-major-10-130 wdt
alias char-major-10-131 wdt
alias char-major-10-135 rtc
alias char-major-10-139 openprom
alias char-major-10-144 nvram
alias char-major-10-157 applicom
alias char-major-10-175 agpgart
alias char-major-10-184 microcode
alias char-major-10-200 tun
alias char-major-13 input
alias char-major-13-32 mousedev
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias char-major-19 cyclades
alias char-major-20 cyclades
alias char-major-21 sg
alias char-major-22 pcxx
alias char-major-23 pcxx
alias char-major-27 zftape
alias char-major-34 scc
alias char-major-35 tclmidi
alias char-major-36 netlink
alias char-major-37 ide-tape
alias char-major-48 riscom8
alias char-major-49 riscom8
alias char-major-57 esp
alias char-major-58 esp
alias char-major-63 kdebug
alias char-major-90 mtdchar
alias char-major-96 pt
alias char-major-99 ppdev
alias char-major-107 3dfx
alias char-major-108 ppp_generic
alias char-major-109 lvm-mod
alias char-major-161 ircomm-tty
alias char-major-171 raw1394
alias char-major-195 NVdriver
alias char-major-200 vxspec
alias char-major-206 osst
alias dos msdos
alias dummy0 dummy
alias dummy1 dummy
alias eth0 8139too
alias iso9660 isofs
alias md-personality-1 linear
alias md-personality-2 raid0
alias md-personality-3 raid1
alias md-personality-4 raid5
alias md-personality-7 multipath
alias net-pf-1 unix
alias net-pf-2 ipv4
alias net-pf-3 off
alias net-pf-4 ipx
alias net-pf-5 appletalk
alias net-pf-6 off
alias net-pf-10 off
alias net-pf-17 af_packet
alias net-pf-19 off
alias netalias-2 ip_alias
alias irlan0 irlan
alias irda-dongle-0 tekram
alias irda-dongle-1 esi
alias irda-dongle-2 actisys
alias irda-dongle-3 actisys
alias irda-dongle-4 girbil
alias irda-dongle-5 litelink
alias irda-dongle-6 airport
alias irda-dongle-7 old_belkin
alias plip0 plip
alias plip1 plip
alias tunl0 ipip
alias cipcb0 cipcb
alias cipcb1 cipcb
alias cipcb2 cipcb
alias cipcb3 cipcb
alias ppp0 ppp
alias ppp1 ppp
alias scsi_hostadapter off
alias slip0 slip
alias slip1 slip
alias tty-ldisc-1 slip
alias tty-ldisc-3 ppp_async
alias tty-ldisc-11 irtty
alias tty-ldisc-14 ppp_synctty
alias ppp-compress-18 ppp_mppe
alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp
alias ppp-compress-24 ppp_deflate
alias ppp-compress-26 ppp_deflate
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
alias usbdevfs usbcore
alias usb-controller usb-uhci
alias sound-slot-0 via82cxxx_audio
alias /dev/ttySHSF* hsfserial
alias char-major-240 hsfserial
alias /dev/ttyCUA* hsfserial
alias char-major-241 hsfserial
alias /dev/modem hsfserial
alias usb-controller1 ehci-hcd
....

...

# Options
options dummy0 -o dummy0
options dummy1 -o dummy1
options sb io=0x220 irq=7 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330
options hsfserial serialmajor=240 calloutmajor=241
# Commands
post-install binfmt_misc /bin/mount -t binfmt_misc none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc > /dev/null 2>&1 || :
pre-remove binfmt_misc /bin/umount /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc > /dev/null 2>&1 || :
post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
# Miscellaneous file and directory names
generic_stringfile=/lib/modules/2.4.20/modules.generic_string
pcimapfile=/lib/modules/2.4.20/modules.pcimap
isapnpmapfile=/lib/modules/2.4.20/modules.isapnpmap
usbmapfile=/lib/modules/2.4.20/modules.usbmap
parportmapfile=/lib/modules/2.4.20/modules.parportmap
ieee1394mapfile=/lib/modules/2.4.20/modules.ieee1394map
pnpbiosmapfile=/lib/modules/2.4.20/modules.pnpbiosmap
depfile=/lib/modules/2.4.20/modules.dep
persistdir=/var/lib/modules/persist


And that's all.

Any suggestion after all?? Hard problem, isn't it??!!

Thanks for your help!!

Yeah, this one is getting into voodoo land, I checked through similar models at linux-laptop.net and no one else seems to have used (or documented) if a cardbus card is working. From this:
It seems that possibly, acpi isn't figuring out how to deal with handing out an IRQ to a cardbus card. Possibly newer acpi patches will nail it... your kernel is really close to new... yeah, this isn't one I've seen before.

Cheers,

Finegan