[LUG] USB problems

[Martin White <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi people...

I haven't really got time to go through this right now (beyond this mail), but 
next week sometime is anyone any good with USB problems?

I've just had the worst 24 hours with linux that i've had in absolutely ages 
and i have to say it was enough to nearly throw the towel in, but thankfully 
i've just circumnavigated the problem for now.

In a nutshell, i bought an N-Gage for my birthday. Essentially though we could 
be talking any device you like, the important bit is it uses MMC cards and i 
needed to read and write them.

Having an HP Photosmart 130 printer (with built in card reader) i failed to 
see how this could remotely be a problem. How wrong could i be.

Anyway, long story short, my shuttle has two usb ports on the front and two on 
the back. I'm running SUSE 9.3 and in the hardware section, they appear as 
the "usual" ohcpi and ehcpi usb devices. I think that's right, i'm not going 
to go into the hardware tool right now to confirm as every time i do that it 
crashes my wireless network card and i have to reboot afterwards but that's 
another story :)

SO, after a night of hair pulling, i popped to argos and bought an 8 in 1 card 
reader this afternoon, but the thing STILL wouldn't work, i just got a load 
of errors in /var/log/messages when i plugged it in, same as i was doing with 
the printer last night.

Not knowing what else to try i remembered that my flat panel screen has a two 
port hub built into it so plugged that in. This came up as a different kind 
of usb port (tusb2056 i think) and when plugged into that the card reader 
works a treat. I'm pretty much willing to bet that the printer's card reader 
would do too if i tried! (Oh well!)

So, for now i need to crack on with what i was doing, i've wasted FAR too much 
time just getting something trivial to work but maybe later on in the week i 
would love to be able to diagnose the errors and get all the other ports 
working properly too (if possible).

I'm having a couple of other issues with SUSE too, but mostly unrelated so 
maybe i'll start another thread when i have more time...

Thanks for reading :)

Martin.

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