Laptop USB port not showing up in the device list
 

I love Ubuntu, but on my laptop (Thinkpad 390E PII 300Mhz) I've had an issue that is very frustrating.

I can't use my USB port (USB 1.1). I want to plug a lot of different devices into that one port. Mouse, USB key drive, digital camera, and colour printer. But none get recognized, and the device never shows in the '/dev/' directory.

When I ran Slackware on the TP390E the USB port worked but only for one device at a time based on which the port was set up to work for.

When I ran Debian (sarge) all the devices worked right.

I'm running Ubuntu 5.04 now.

I ran 'lspci' and it finds the USB controller just fine in the list of PCI devices.

When I dmesg|less I see that uhci_hcd ran into an error 16 (The probe of the USB PCI device fails) , later ohci_hcd loads successfully.

'/etc/udev' looks completely configured to accept sda devices (1-9).

I'm thinking that means that the problem is some where between the hardware and Sysfs detecting the hardware plugged into the computer. Does that make any sense?

I'm still on the learning curve with Linux though so I'm not really sure what I can do at this point to fix this problem with the USB port.

Anyone know what I can do to get this stubborn problem finally solved?:scratch:

what's the output of "lsusb"

does ubuntu actually run on a 300mzh think pad?? :eek: not a bit slow??

anyway, i think you need to run "ohci" maybe rather than uhci. but i guess this would involve a kernel recompile (up to you)