[Linux-usb-users] USB problems on Dell Insiron 3000

[Morgan Collins]

I am having a problem with USB on my laptop, it has a PIIX4 controller and I have usbcore, uhci, etc modules compiled and loaded, however whenever I plug in an USB device, it says device wont take the address, reports a timeout and every so often spits out host system error, PCI problem?. Just for kicks I put Win2k on it to see if it was a bad controller, but all worked well in 2k.

This is kernel 2.4.18, I have a system right beside is that has a PIIX4 82371AB USB controller as well, and all the devices I am plugging in to the laptop work in this other computer.

lspci -v says this about the controller:
00:01.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
I/O ports at fce0 [size=32]

I have read through the FAQs and see that other people have had problems with this when PNPOS is enabled, I have tried the PNPOS setting in both states and it doesn't seam to help. Also, it mentions something about PCI controller miscommunication with the USB controller, but doesn't say much about how to fix it. I tried changing PCI access method from Any to Direct, to no avail.

I have not tested 2.2.x because I have reiser filesystem, but I will toss 2.5.x on it something this week and see if it helps.

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-- Morgan Collins http://sirmorcant.morcant.org Crypto Doesn't Kill - People Do.

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