On Fri, 2001-10-26 at 06:40, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> Hello
>
> I am quite new to USB, and I have to connect and set up a development
> (bluetooth) board. It looks like USB is set up correctly - I have a USB
> mouse, which, apon connect, makes the puter beep, a new entry appears in
> /proc/bus/usb/devices, I was even able to cat /dev/usb/mice (I think),
> until that device disappeared:-) but I didn't try very hard to find out
> why or to solve this mistery.
Disappearance of a connected device is a bad sign. You should look into
this problem.
> So, the question really is - should any USB
> device appear in /proc/bus/usb/devices upon connect,
Yes, it should.
> and does the fact
> that nothing appears there mean that there's a hardware problem? Which is
> quite possible.
Maybe hardware problem, maybe software. The host controller driver
provides the interface to the bus, and if it is not loaded (or not
working properly) then you don't see devices connected to that
controller.
Have a look at your /var/log/messages.
Dmitri
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