I'm using 2.6.4:)
--- On Wed 03/17, Ged Haywood < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
From: Ged Haywood [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 21:54:52 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Re: [Linux-usb-users] really nasty usb problems and hotplug not working
Hi there,<br><br>On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, John H. wrote:<br><br>> 00:10.0 USB Controller:
VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6202 [USB 2.0 controller] (rev 80)<br>><br>> I am having
really ugly problems with usb on my new machine with linux.<br><br>Join the
club.<br><br>Until now my advice would have been forget 2.4 kernels and VIA
for<br>USB. If you can use 2.6 then try that, but don't expect it to be<br>plain
sailing all the way. However recently (today) it has popped up<br>on the list that
there may be some important differences between Linux<br>and Debian as far as USB is
concerned. I don't yet know what's going<br>on there but I mean to find
out.<br><br>Here's my experience with USB and VIA and Linux (both RedHat
and<br>Slackware) kernels:<br><br>2.4.18 Crashes the kernel.<br>2.4.19 Crashes the
kernel.<br>2.4.20 Crashes the kernel.<br>2.4.21 Crashes the kernel.<br>2.4.22 Crashes
the kernel.<br>2.4.23 Crashes the kernel.<br>2.4.24 Crashes the
kernel.<br><br>2.6.0-pre1 as 2.6.1 below.<br>2.6.1<br>Doesn't crash the kernel at
least, but if you unmount any usb-storage<br>device you can't mount it again until
after you next reboot PLUS our<br>VPN doesn't reconnect about 30% of the time when our
French site<br>renegotiates a DHCP lease. So I gave up with 2.6 and had to go
back<br>to 2.4.24. Which I'm afraid means that I had to give up using USB for<br>the
moment since most of the time I can't risk crashing kernels like<br>that. Of course
this makes it kinda hard to work on the documentation<br>but I'm doing the best I can
working from other peoples' experiences.<br><br>I plan to have another go as soon as I
can (a) catch up with 2.4.2x<br>kernels on all our boxes, (b) try a patch that should
stop corruption<br>of our IDE drives and (c) find out why some stuff seems to work
on<br>Debian (Knoppix-maybe other Debian?) but seems not to work on the<br>Slackware
and RedHat Linux systems I have unfortunately to maintain...<br><br>> usb 1-3: device
not accepting address 39, error -110<br><br>This probably means interrupt problems as
it says in the FAQ. YMMV.<br><br>If anyone out there has experience of using Debian
and USB will they<br>please speak up now? I'm particularly interested if you have
seen<br>differences between the performance of Debian and Linux on the
same<br>hardware.<br><br>73,<br>Ged.<br>
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