USB is AWOL on my HP.
 

Well, I thought I had everything working on my laptop. I even had suspend to disk working for the first time today.... but now I've hit another snag.... USB. I plugged a device in... and nothing. USB isn't even in my /proc. I rand harddrak, and it shows 3 usb devices, just like windows does, (where my USb works fine) but, when I plug a USB mouse in, the light doesn't come on. I've tried 2 mice, and a USB flash drive.... nothing. Under windows they all work. I've tried mandrake 9.1 and 9.2 RC2. I'm kinda at a loss. Any help?

BTW, laptop is a HP ze5385us. USB works under Knoppix 3.2, and from what I can tell no one's had a UB issue with this laptop yet.... so I'm stumpped. I've done 3 fresh installs.. and it still doesn't work.

Is there something I can pass to the kernel to tell it to "turn on" usb? (since I have to do a "linux no auto" install inorder to keep it from detecting my firewire, which freezes the install)

I appologize for the scrambled post, but I'm pretty tired as I type this....

First lets see if it can see them. Use this command ' cat /proc/scsi/scsi '
If it shows your USB device then you will need to mount it manually.

First create a directory for it to mount to ' mkdir /mnt/usbdrive '
Then to mount it ' mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbdevice ' as long as it is vfat. If it is any thing else change vfat to whatever filesystem type it is.

Hope this helps.
Brian1

Nope. Not there. It doesn't seem to register USB at all.

Sorry didn't read your question very well.

Show me these outputs. With the mouse plugged in and with the flashreader plugged in.

cat /proc/bus/usb/devices

cat /proc/bus/usb/drivers

cat /proc/scsi/scsi

lsmod

You can download a program called usbview to show USB info in a gui screen.

Also to see if USB is compiled as a module check and see if you have the following directory /lib/modules/*****/kernel/drivers/usb (***** is the current kernel you are using if there is more than one.
Example of mine file:/lib/modules/2.4.23-pre4/kernel/drivers/usb

I have USB view, and it complains about not being able to find /proc/usb/devices.

Here's the cats u wanted:

cat /proc/bus/usb/devices
No such file or Directory

cat /proc/bus/usb/drivers
No such file or Directory

cat /proc/bus/scsi/scsi
Attatched Devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: TEAC Model: DW-224E Rev: A.0H
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02

Not very helpful, huh? When I look for the USB drivers, I find that yes, I have the /lib/modules/2.4.22-mdk6/kernel/drives/usb, and it has a ton of things in it.

Also, I don't remember if I said this, but if I boot a USB device, it has power, but if I plug one in after I boot mandrake, it doesn't recieve power, IE the light on the optical mouse doesn't light up, nor the light on the flashdrive.... nothing.

What does your ' lsmod ' report. This list the modules running.

Doesn't look like modules are loaded or kernel issue.

Same Problem here
 

I use a HP - N5415 laptop. This machine (probably yours too) uses (i believe) an ALi USB. I have the same problem.

If you check your logs you will probably find something like:
USB device not accepting new address=2 (error=-110)

I have not been able to solve this problem. I spent several weeks banging away at this and have finally given up. I have not been able to find any solutions on the internet.

Whatever the problem is, it is beyond my skills to fix. I am now just waiting for someone more skilled than myself to fix it, or possibly newer versions of the OS or kernel.

Same problem here.

I have a JVC-XP 7250 Laptop with USB 2.0 and am using Mandrake 9.2RC1. I can't mount any device on the USB ports, during startup linux is complaining about some IRQ or IO problems regarding the OHCI module.

But if i connect my USB flashcard _before_ I start the Computer, OHCI is starting fine and I can mount the flashcard. If I start the computer without the attached flashcard and plug it in when lilo is running and before booting linux OHCI is complaining about IRQs/IOs again.

So it seems the BIOS has to enable the ports, which it will only make, when a device is connected (newbie view). Otherwise with Windows everything is working.

Hoping that somebody finds a solution now that more guys seem to have the same problem.

Thorsten

Well, It's not loading the USB modules.. how do I load them?

At a terminal screen issue these commands. This is to see which ones you need.

insmod usb-ohci for some 1.0 1.1 usb cards
insmod usd-uhci for other 1.0 1.1 usb cards
insmod ehci-hcd for 2.0 usb

One or two will not load. The ones that load with no errors you could then add them to /etc/modules.conf file. Example below of my statements in my modules.conf file.


edit /etc/modules.conf
alias usb-controller usb-ohci
alias usb-controller1 ehci-hcd