On Monday 03 July 2006 10:21, Adam Bower wrote:
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 08:57:51PM +0100, Nick Daniels wrote:
and with MP3 player and USB harddrive connected: lsusb Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Hmmmn, looking at that suggests the machine can see the USB hardware but nothing on the bus. Like Wayne suggested get a test meter on it to see if there is any power going over the USB bus. I think some machines might have a resettable fuse on the motherboard for usb things so it may be worth having a look at that possibility (of course many motherboards have a fuse on the USB circuitry but once the fuse has blown you can't replace it easily, if at all).
You /may/ end up having to replace the motherboard or look at getting a pci card with USB ports on it, I recently got a USB 2 pci card with 4 external ports and 1 internal port for a grand total of £6.48 off ebay.
Thanks Adam
Hi Adam Just finished checking with voltmeter, no 5V present on USB, cannot find fuse or reference to it in otherboard manual. You have also answered, my other question re. pci USB cards, as to whether they work OK on Linux, (last time I tried one was Suse 7.0) Will fit pci USB Many thanks for help all. Kind Regards -Nick Daniels