Hi Ralph, Cheers for the speedy reply :-) The kernel links were quite interesting.
> Back to the "usb 2-4", that's the device. On plugging in a USB flash > drive, dmesg shows > usb 1-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7 > and lsusb > Bus 001 Device 007: ID 7614:5066 > Do you see anything similar around 2-4? lsusb's -D can be handy, e.g. > sudo lsusb -D /dev/bus/usb/001/007 > > If you unplug all possible USB things you've added, does it still occur? I had nothing plugged in at the time. Began looking into the devices listed on /dev/bus/usb/* using the command and found it was probably to do with the wireless/bluetooth modules. Blacklisted a module (ath3k) and changed some modprobe options for another (ath9k) and it seems to have sorted it for now... > BTW, > https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=string%20descriptor%200%20malformed%20err%2061%20string%20descriptor%200%20malformed > for me comes up with quite a few similar complaints, including some on the > C720. :-) > http://forums.bodhilinux.com/index.php?/topic/10471-acer-c720-problem/ > Did you ask for "-61", only the `-' tells Google to skip items > containing "61"? I had found those links but they provided no further information of use :-) (http://xkcd.com/979/) Thanks, Sam -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-09-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
