USB 3.0 PCI-Express-Card in Slackware 14.2

Mankind75 · 03-31-2018, 04:39 AM

Hello everyone,

I recently bought a USB-3.0 PCI Express (1x) card from China which has four external 3.0 ports and is powered by a Molex-Adapter.

I also have a USB 2.0 Audioheadset which I plugged into one of the USB 3.0 ports of the Chinese hub and lsusb then gives me:

Code:

bash-4.3# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 03f0:e311 Hewlett-Packard 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 003: ID 093a:2510 Pixart Imaging, Inc. Optical Mouse
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 006 Device 002: ID 2109:3431 VIA Labs, Inc. Hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

I also got this line from a different forum which seems that USB 3.0 Support is being compiled in as a Kernel module. I am using the standard Slackware 14.2 Kernel:

Code:

bash-4.3# zcat /proc/config.gz |grep USB_XHCI_HCD
CONFIG_USB_XHCI_HCD=m

Code:

# uname -a
Linux redrig 4.4.14 #2 SMP Fri Jun 24 13:38:27 CDT 2016 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU    Q8300  @ 2.50GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to recognize my USB 2.0 Audio headset which used to work in the USB 2.0 ports. dmesg | tail also isn't quite revealing other that one device is being disconnected.

Code:

bash-4.3# dmesg | tail
[   16.130883] cfg80211:   (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 80000 KHz, 160000 KHz AUTO), (N/A, 2000 mBm), (N/A)
[   16.130887] cfg80211:   (5250000 KHz - 5330000 KHz @ 80000 KHz, 160000 KHz AUTO), (N/A, 2000 mBm), (0 s)
[   16.130889] cfg80211:   (5490000 KHz - 5730000 KHz @ 160000 KHz), (N/A, 2000 mBm), (0 s)
[   16.130892] cfg80211:   (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 80000 KHz), (N/A, 2000 mBm), (N/A)
[   16.130894] cfg80211:   (57240000 KHz - 63720000 KHz @ 2160000 KHz), (N/A, 0 mBm), (N/A)
[   16.147342] r8169 0000:03:00.0 eth0: link down
[   16.147353] r8169 0000:03:00.0 eth0: link down
[   18.304359] r8169 0000:03:00.0 eth0: link up
[   25.367231] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 9953.453056] usb 5-1: USB disconnect, device number 2

Could you help me out as I would really like to have some additional USB ports?

Darth Vader · 03-31-2018, 06:30 AM

Let me see if I understand right:

So, you bought a Chinese counterfeit card, soldered in an obscure garage by a 7 old kid on his 14th hour of daily work, then you are happy you payed $2 for it, but unhappy that it does not work?

Honestly, you need a detailed map to figure out that you are literally busted by yourself?

heyjann · 03-31-2018, 09:08 AM

A few thoughts:

1. Do you have other USB devices that do work well with the PCI card? This may well be nonsense (USB3 is supposed to be fully backwards compatible) but from personal experience I have the notion that some USB2 devices don't like USB3 ports as much as others do.
2. lspci might be more informative than lsusb because it may tell you/this forum the make/chipset of the PCI card itself.
3. It could be worth a try if you can to download, burn and boot a -current livecd (from http://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/slackware-live/latest/ ) to see if it works better with that. If so, it could be that the card is a newer chipset not well-supported in older kernels.

Mankind75 · 03-31-2018, 09:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by heyjann

1. Do you have other USB devices that do work well with the PCI card? This may well be nonsense (USB3 is supposed to be fully backwards compatible) but from personal experience I have the notion that some USB2 devices don't like USB3 ports as much as others do.

I only tried the Audio Headset so far.

Quote:

2. lspci might be more informative than lsusb because it may tell you/this forum the make/chipset of the PCI card itself.

lspci reveals:

Code:

02:00.0 USB controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VL805 USB 3.0 Host Controller (rev 01)

Quote:

3. It could be worth a try if you can to download, burn and boot a -current livecd (from http://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/slackware-live/latest/ ) to see if it works better with that. If so, it could be that the card is a newer chipset not well-supported in older kernels.

Will try one of these Live-CDs, thanks. Just started the download.