Re: USB PCI Card problem

I demand that James Telford may or may not have written...

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:55:34 +0100, Darren Salt wrote:
I demand that James Telford may or may not have written...
I'm having a problem with a 5 port USB PCI card I've installed in my
computer.
[snip]
You've neglected to say what card and to provide lspci output for it (-n
& -v will both help). Also, kernel log excerpts may be helpful.

/sbin/lspci -n
[snip]
00:07.0 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 61)
00:07.1 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 61)
00:07.2 0c03: 1106:3104 (rev 63)
[snip]
00:10.0 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 81)
00:10.1 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 81)
00:10.2 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 81)
00:10.3 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 81)
00:10.4 0c03: 1106:3104 (rev 86)
[snip]

/sbin/lspci -v
[snip]
00:07.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev 61) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller
[snip; 00:07.1 ditto]
00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 63)
(prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0

VIA-based USB PCI card. I have one such card here: it has the same PCI IDs
and, so far, I've had no problems with it. The scrap of paper on which the
specification is printed appears to be saying that it's really a 4-port card
with one of the external ports duplicated for internal connection.

[snip]
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev 81) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Unknown device 7211
[snip; 00:10.1, .2 and .3 ditto]
00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86) (prog-if
20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Unknown device 7211
[snip]

That'll be the on-board USB. It may be relevant that it is *also* VIA and,
according to your "lspci -n" output, is identical; the fact that it appears
as four USB 1.1 controllers tells me that eight ports are (or should be)
available, though whether they're all wired up or even have headers on the
board... :-)

I should mention that my USB card is attached to an Intel-based board
(PIIX4); I have no idea whether this is relevant. However, you could try the
card in another PCI slot (though I don't really expect that to make any
difference) or another computer or two if you can (ideally, one of them with
a different, non-VIA, on-board USB controller chip, or no USB at all).

Also when I plugged a mouse into this card, it did not work either
despite being recognised:
[snip]
Missing uhci-hcd? Missing ohci-hcd? Partially unsupported card?
2.6.21-1.3228.fc7
Is that really 2.6.21 or is it a 2.6.22 development snapshot?

The kernel is that which was updated from Fedora official Yum repositories.

Which doesn't answer the question. However, if it *is* a .22 dev snapshot
(this is known to happen in FC bleeding edge), you should try plain
2.6.21(.5) or 2.6.22(.1) in case of something in the snapshot which is
interfering.

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