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52midnight
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 Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 1:30 am Post subject: USB devices ignored by new installation. [WORKAROUND] |
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I'm now starting to use the latest of my Gentoo installations. The first major problem is that peripheral USB devices aren't recognized. A USB memory stick present during the boot process is recognized by 'lsusb' along with the motherboard USB hubs, but the external powered hub permanently attached to the machine is ignored:
| Code: | Bus 006 Device 002: ID 1307:0165 Transcend Information, Inc. 2GB/4GB Flash Drive
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 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 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub |
If the USB stick is removed and plugged back in it generates error messages:
| Code: | [ 7109.841749] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 7123.790057] usb 2-6: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[ 7139.050413] usb 2-6: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[ 7139.220374] hub 2-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 6
[ 7139.540081] usb 2-6: new high-speed USB device number 87 using ehci_hcd
[ 7154.690618] usb 2-6: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[ 7169.950059] usb 2-6: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[ 7170.120386] hub 2-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 6
[ 7170.440081] usb 2-6: new high-speed USB device number 89 using ehci_hcd
[ 7185.590055] usb 2-6: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[ 7200.850068] usb 2-6: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[ 7201.020351] hub 2-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 6
[ 7201.340080] usb 2-6: new high-speed USB device number 91 using ehci_hcd
[ 7216.490124] usb 2-6: device descriptor read/64, error -110 |
Anything else is ignored when plugged-in. I turned to the official Gentoo documentation to discover:
| Quote: | | udev is meant to be used in combination with a 2.6 kernel |
I'm using a 3.7.9 kernel. The USB page is equally uninformative.
This problem makes my new installation quite unusable. Could someone please asvise where to start debugging it?
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DONAHUE
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| Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 2:37 am Post subject: |
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https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/33887 apparently some people are having this problem with kernels 3.7.6 to 3.7.9
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52midnight
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| Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 2:43 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for your advice. This is a major bug for anyone stuck with it, and to be present for several revisions seems perplexing.
Is there any way of hurrying up a fix? |
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DONAHUE
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| Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 2:52 am Post subject: |
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put | Quote: | | sys-kernel/gentoo-sources ~amd64 |
in /etc/portage/package.keywords | Code: | emerge gentoo-sources
eselect kernel set linux-3.8.3-gentoo-r1 |
and build a 3.8.3--r1 kernel
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52midnight
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| Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 4:21 am Post subject: |
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> and build a 3.8.3--r1 kernel
I'll thank you sincerely for your advice and hope that others can profit by it; but I'll have to confess to being one of those cowards who last compiled a kernel more than five years ago.
For those privately content with the coward's way out, I've swapped back to a 3.5.7 kernel from an installation CD (install-x86-minimal-20121213.iso) and everything works as advertised. |
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