USB problems with Via KT133

[howzer7]

Hi I have had a problem accessing any of my USB devices on my Mandrake 9 box. I have had to move my USB mouse (Logitec) to one side and use my old PS2 mouse. And now I am unable to get my brand new USB Canon i320 to work. mutter mutter...
I have activated the USB ports in BIOS, yet the instal did not recognise my USB mouse. And recently changed the BIOS setting to 'None plug & play OS' yet still unable to use the mouse.
I have confirmed that /dev/usb/lp0 & lp1 exist with the same authority as /dev/lp0.
Both these devises work fine under W2K.

I am using the turboprint driver for the printer as the i320 was not supported by Mandrake 9, but no luck there.
I thought I might have heard a rumour about problems with the VIA KT133 chipset (used). But have not discovered any more.

Can someone give me some steps to get to the bottom of this problem?

Thanks
Howard

[neondog]

does an /sbin/lsmod show any signs of usb modules being loaded?

[je_fro]

dmesg | grep usb

[howzer7]

OK /sbin/lsmod gives the following lines:

printer 6944 0 (unused)
usb-uhci 21676 0 (unused)
usbcore 58304 1 [printer usb-uhci]

And dmesg | grep usb gives:

usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 18:49:04 Sep 20 2002
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xd400, IRQ 11
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xd800, IRQ 11
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
usbdevfs: remount parameter error
usb.c: registered new driver usblp
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=2 (error=-110)
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=3 (error=-110)

Thanks
Howard

[mdwatts]

I take it your usb mouse is not plugged in since lsmod does not show usbmouse and I believe hid.

The usb printer module support is loaded so I would suspect you either do not have the printer setup properly or do not have the printer services started (CUPS etc.).

Check the online Mandrake documentation for configuring printers and starting the necessary services.

[bwkaz]

Originally posted by howzer7
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=2 (error=-110)
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=3 (error=-110) I saw this a while back with a 1-port USB hub (a.k.a. an "active cable extender"). It was a device problem then -- I don't know if the same would be true here, but it might be. When I check through /usr/include/linux/errno.h to see what the -110 means, I see that 110 is defined as ETIMEDOUT. So the usb.c file is trying to assign a USB address to the device (probably the printer, since this happens right after the printer sub-driver is set up), but is timing out in the process.

You may want to have the printer checked out by a service person, or at least try it in a different OS. The 1-port hub that I was seeing this with would, in Windows, hang there for quite some time trying to find a driver, and then complain "no known driver for this device", and then not let you choose one. So if something similar happens with the printer...

[howzer7]

OK, Thanks all for your help, but:
Yes my usb mouse is plugged in (although not configured)
And both my peripherals both work just fine under w2k.
My system has 2x USB ports on the mainboard.
Tried swapping the printer & mouse around without a change in lsmod.
I configored the printer using printerdrake and am fairly sure this is correct. CUPS is started at boot.
Tried configuring the mouse as a generic usb mouse , but upon logging out & backin the mouse control was lost. I noticed at bootup something about /dev/usbmouse not found (Not sure of the name there, memories is a bit soft)

Back to you guys.
Thanks
Howard

[je_fro]

You'll find a site where I keep my config files for safe keeping. I use a logitech optical wheel mouse (USB). Look at my mouse entries under XF86Config. See how it matches up to your /etc/X11/XF86Config file...