I'm trying to get my Slackware 11 system to see USB devices but at the moment I'm having no success at all.
Plugging either a digital camera or a memory stick into the USB sockets elicits no response at all, nothing in any of the log files, nothing that I can see in the /proc area.
If I do 'lsusb' I just get:-
Bus 1 Device 1: ID 0000:0000 Bus 2 Device 1: ID 0000:0000 Bus 3 Device 1: ID 0000:0000
I'm running a 2.6.18 kernel.
What do I need to do to get something useful to happen?!
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 07:45:22PM +0000, cl@isbd.net wrote:
I'm trying to get my Slackware 11 system to see USB devices but at the moment I'm having no success at all.
Plugging either a digital camera or a memory stick into the USB sockets elicits no response at all, nothing in any of the log files, nothing that I can see in the /proc area.
If I do 'lsusb' I just get:-
Bus 1 Device 1: ID 0000:0000 Bus 2 Device 1: ID 0000:0000 Bus 3 Device 1: ID 0000:0000I'm running a 2.6.18 kernel.
What do I need to do to get something useful to happen?!
It's OK, sillines strikes again, the front panel USB sockets aren't working. Plug the memory stick in the sockets on the back and it works straight away!
Ho, hum, now to find out why the front panel sockets aren't working.
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 19:51 +0000, cl@isbd.net wrote:
Ho, hum, now to find out why the front panel sockets aren't working.
Most likely reasons are either a> Somebody hasn't plugged in the header or b> The headers were plugged in but the ports wern't tested
There are a few wiring conventions for the USB headers, specifically in respect to Data - and Data + being swapped, your case should have either legends on the connectors or reference to colours in the build sheet that came with it. Refer to the mainboard documentation and match them up.
If documentation is not to hand then you can experiment with Data - and Data + but make sure that Supply + and - are not swapped (all conventions I know about have them in the same place anyway) or that Supply is put on Data pins and vice versa.
USB spec says that all pins should be able to tolerate 5V without damage, but you should not count on that being the case for every device/board available.
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 09:25:09PM +0000, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 19:51 +0000, cl@isbd.net wrote:
Ho, hum, now to find out why the front panel sockets aren't working.
Most likely reasons are either a> Somebody hasn't plugged in the header or b> The headers were plugged in but the ports wern't tested
It seems that of the three sets of pins on the MB where the wires to the front panel USB can be plugged in only one is working. Since I only have one pair of front panel USB sockets that's not a problem. There are four more USB sockets at the rear as well which all work.
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 23:20 +0000, cl@isbd.net wrote:
It seems that of the three sets of pins on the MB where the wires to the front panel USB can be plugged in only one is working. Since I only have one pair of front panel USB sockets that's not a problem. There are four more USB sockets at the rear as well which all work.
I hate pointing out the obvious but are you sure the other two aren't firewire headers ?
If not it may be that the other two ports are on a different controller that your kernel hasn't initialised properly
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 11:46:26PM +0000, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 23:20 +0000, cl@isbd.net wrote:
It seems that of the three sets of pins on the MB where the wires to the front panel USB can be plugged in only one is working. Since I only have one pair of front panel USB sockets that's not a problem. There are four more USB sockets at the rear as well which all work.
I hate pointing out the obvious but are you sure the other two aren't firewire headers ?
If not it may be that the other two ports are on a different controller that your kernel hasn't initialised properly
No the firewire headers are in a different place, there's two of them and the pinout looks slightly different to me. Each USB header has two USB ports. The board has four USB sockets at the rear and three two-port USB headers. The only USB header that appears to work is the 'first' one (they're numbered USB1, USB2 and USB3). I was only checking by looking at the little light on the memory stick so it *might* be that the USB2 and USB3 headers are unpowered rather than not working. Anyway it doesn't matter in the slightest, I have no possible use for so many USB ports. The motherboard manual doesn't say anything about USB2 and USB3 not being powered though.
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