THat should work fine. If you have nothing in /proc/bus/usb/devices
something is very wrong. What do you log files show when you load the
drivers? lspci -vvv will be informative too.

On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, dima wrote:

> Stephen J. Gowdy wrote:
>
> >Something is serious wrong with your system then. Do you have something
> >like "USB Legacy" turned o nin your BIOS? If so, turn that off.
> >
> I own an ancient MaxData Artist laptop. Its BIOS has very little options
> to change & none of them are about the USB (I've read that Plug'n'Play
> OS option may cause USB bugs under Linux on some laptops, so I checked
> it was turned off). I asked the question if it is ok when I use USB 2.0
> drive with USB 1.1 hub on another maillist & I was answered it is. It
> must be some buggy hub hardware (it reports it is PIIX4). That's why I'm
> looking for USB driver developers here to help me make a fix.
>
> >
> >On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, dima wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>Stephen J. Gowdy wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>What drivers do you have loaded? What is in /proc/bus/usb/devices? What
> >>>does 'lspci -vvv' show for that device?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>modprobe usb
> >>modprobe [uhci,usb-uhci,usb-ohci]
> >>modprobe usb-storage
> >>
> >>/proc/bus/usb/devices doesn't contain anything but 1-line comment.
> >>I can provide the lspci output only tommorrow.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>What happens in your log files and /proc/bus/usb/devices when you plug in
> >>>your storage device?
> >>>
> >>>On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, dima wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Stephen J. Gowdy wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>Sounds like you must have a hardware or pci problem. 'lspci -vvv' shows?
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>USB virtual root hub seems to be ok (PCI:00:07:2). It works ok with a
> >>>>USB mouse also.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, dima wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>Stephen J. Gowdy wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>>And there are no error messages in your log files?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>No. All the drivers are loaded correctly. The only thing which is
> >>>>>>disturbing me is that USB driver doesn't report any unclaimed devices at
> >>>>>>any stage (& only unclaimed devices are scanned as new drivers e.g.
> >>>>>>usb-storage are loaded).
> >>>>>>So, I need some kind of USB scanner (USB I/O range scan before & after
> >>>>>>plugging showed up no difference as I mentioned earlier) to figure out
> >>>>>>what is going on.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>>On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, dima wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>Stephen J. Gowdy wrote:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>Try starting at the FAQ and User Guide at http://www.linux-usb.org .
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>Well, all the explanations start with the fact I see my device in
> >>>>>>>>/proc/bus/usb/* but I don't
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, dima wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>I got a noname usb drive recently marked as "Samsung 128MB". It works ok
> >>>>>>>>>>plugged into my FreeBSD desktop as Lexar Jumpshot but it fails on my old
> >>>>>>>>>>Linux laptop. The problem is that USB driver doesn't report any
> >>>>>>>>>>unclaimed devices, so nothing happpens when I do `modprobe usb-storage`.
> >>>>>>>>>>I think my question is addressed to developers mostly: how can I figure
> >>>>>>>>>>out if the USB driver is able to work with the device (btw, I have a
> >>>>>>>>>>PIIX4 USB hub)? I tried to scan the USB I/O range (0x7000-0x701f) but
> >>>>>>>>>>nothing changed when i plugged the device. Now I'm working on figuring
> >>>>>>>>>>out the call-stack in my case (any help from developers again?) &
> >>>>>>>>>>inserting more log messages.
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>
>
>

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