Following on from our discussion last night, here is the link to the site where it enumerates which Belkin devices are supported under Linux. I still haven't found out how to tell them apart however:>(
http://linux-wless.passys.nl/query_part.php?brandname=Belkin I will retest this ugly v4003 thing under XP again today when I reboot. Peter On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 08:35 +0000, Peter Merchant wrote: > I recently bought off ebay a Belkin Wireless USB stick, as I had > borrowed one and tried it and it worked beautifully. > > This one is a F5D7050 v4003 which has the same chipset (ZD1211) as my > ZyXEL wireless USB stick. However when I plug in the Belkin, DMESG gets > stuffed with the message > “unable to enumerate USB device in port 3.” Which a bit of research > seems to indicate is due to only supporting USB 1. > > I tried it under XP and it works fine. I even get the message that this > device would work faster if plugged into a USB 2 port. I begin to wonder > if this is a wobbly in XP that it cannot determine which port is USB 1, > it's own or the remote? > > A search on the Internet brought me to: > http://www.absolutelytech.com/2010/04/18/solved-unable-to-enumerate-usb-device-disabling-ehci_hcd/ > > Where the 'cure' is to do the following before inserting the device. > > cd /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ehci_hcd > ls > sudo sh -c 'echo -n "0000:00:xx.x" > unbind' > Now plug in the device and it works. > > 1. The question is - Does Kubuntu 10.10 not support USB 1 devices, or is > the selection of version of USB faulty? > > 2. Belkin support tells me that this is a USB 2 device. Do you think > that it is possible that they have a fault with the implementation of > USB on this device (and this device only)? > > 3. How can I test which version of USB is implemented on a device, aside > from the above(!) [ somewhere I have the spec downloaded for USB 1, but > God knows where - that was years ago] > > Peter M. > > > > > > -- > Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-04-05 20:00 > Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ > How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-04-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue