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