Some time ago I updated my Mandrake 10.1 to Mandriva 2006.0.
I use a 2.6.3 kernel.

When I plug in any USB device (Bluetooth dongle, or camera) nothing happens.
There is no message in the syslog nor does kde activate the Bluetooth icon (actually kde is all the time saying that no bluetooth device is connected) nor is the camera mounted.

Can anyone tell me what my next steps should be?

Thanks

Check the entry in /etc/fstab and check if the usb_storage kernel module is loaded. Use "tail -f /var/log/messages" to see if there is any event (or where Mandrake stores it's log files).

Use "lspci -vv" to see if the usb device is there in the first place.

I believe you also want the hotplug package.

Hi,

hotplug is installed.

I tried to load the usb_storage module manually using modprobe usb_storage, which worked without any error message. If I connect my digicam there are no new entries in /var/log/messages or /var/log/syslog.

When I connect the camera to the PC it writes all the time "Establishing USB connection". I remember that this message disapeared after a few seconds in the time when my computer was recognising the device.

This is the output of lspci -vv that seems to me related to USB (it looks the same if the camera is not connected):

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: EPoX Computer Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 4003
Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
Region 4: I/O ports at bc00 [size=32]

00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: EPoX Computer Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 4003
Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 19
Region 4: I/O ports at b000 [size=32]

00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: EPoX Computer Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 4003
Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin C routed to IRQ 18
Region 4: I/O ports at b400 [size=32]

00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: EPoX Computer Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 4003
Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
Region 4: I/O ports at b800 [size=32]

00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: EPoX Computer Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 4003
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin D routed to IRQ 23
Region 0: Memory at fc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: <available only to root>


This is my /etc/fstab:
# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
/dev/hde5 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/hde1 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/md0 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0022,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
/dev/hda /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0022,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hde6 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdg1 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0

but I think the removeable devices should be added dynamically to /etc/fstab.

Any ideas?

Hey, did you ever get this resolved. I am getting something similar, but it happened after i rebuilt my machine and ran all the updates