USB not working

**britt** · 02-10-2005, 01:56 PM

Hi all,

I hope someone here can help me with my USB problem, I spend already hours on this, googling for usb and linux, but haven't found a working solution so far:
I don`t get my USB devices to work. They seem not to be recognized by Knoppix, though kernel modules are loaded:
lsmod:
:
usbserial 19676 0 [visor]
usb-storage 62016 0 (unused)
usb-uhci 21836 0 (unused)
usbcore 57824 1 [visor usbserial usb-storage usb-uhci]

Am I right that usb devices (usb stick or Palm) should be mounted automatically by the system? Or do I have to mount them manually? I tried (without success): mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbdevfs or mount /proc/bus/usb/ /dev/usbdevfs.

My system is: HP Omnibook 4150 with USB 1.0, Knoppix 3.7 (HD installed) with Kernel 2.4.27

Any help is appreciated!
Best regards
britt

**OErjan** · 02-10-2005, 05:00 PM

first, what type of hdd install? secondly what does

Code:

dmesg|grep ub&&dmesg|grep sd

give you?
what does

Code:

uname -a

Code:

lspci

Code:

 cat /etc/fstab

Code:

fdisk -l

have to say?
whit these things we have a better chance of helping you.

**britt** · 02-11-2005, 12:48 PM

Hi OErjan,

thanks for your answer! Below the the info you asked for. That was a good idea: dmsg issues a remount parameter error. Maybe this is the problem. Do you know how to fix it?

best regards
britt

Code:

britt@Osiris:~$ dmesg
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 00:50:50 Aug  9 2004
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
PCI: Enabling device 00:07.2 (0000 -> 0001)
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:07.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:08.0
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xfcc0, IRQ 10
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
usbdevfs: remount parameter error
       :
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
       :


britt@Osiris:~$ uname -a
Linux Osiris 2.4.27 #2 SMP Mo Aug 9 00:39:37 CEST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux

britt@Osiris:~$  lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1225 (rev 01)
0000:00:04.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1225 (rev 01)
0000:00:07.0 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
0000:00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
0000:00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 03)
0000:00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1978 Maestro 2E (rev 10)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x (rev 64)

britt@Osiris:~$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: filesystem table.
#
# filesystem  mountpoint  type  options  dump  pass
/dev/hda6  /  ext3  defaults,errors=remount-ro  0  1

proc  /proc  proc  defaults  0  0
/dev/fd0  /floppy  vfat  defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=022  0  0
usbdevfs  /proc/bus/usb  usbdevfs  defaults  0  0
sysfs  /sys  sysfs  defaults  0  0
/dev/cdrom /cdrom  iso9660  defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto  0  0
/dev/dvd /dvd  iso9660  defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto  0  0
/dev/cdaudio /cdaudio  iso9660  defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto  0  0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=000 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=000 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=000 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda5 none swap defaults 0 0

root@Osiris:~# fdisk -l

Platte /dev/hda: 18.1 GByte, 18141806592 Byte
240 Köpfe, 63 Sektoren/Spuren, 2343 Zylinder
Einheiten = Zylinder von 15120 * 512 = 7741440 Bytes

    Gerät Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1               1          73      551848+  a0  IBM Thinkpad hibernation
/dev/hda2              74         350     2094120    6  FAT16
/dev/hda3             351         764     3129840   16  Verst. FAT16
/dev/hda4   *         765        2343    11937240    5  Erweiterte
/dev/hda5             765         797      249448+  82  Linux Swap
/dev/hda6   *         798        2343    11687728+  83  Linux
root@Osiris:~#

**Tom2000** · 02-11-2005, 04:44 PM

I have the same problem, except using a Toshiba P25-S520 laptop and a Sandisk Cruzer Mini 512 MB flash drive, booting from the Knoppix 3.7 CD.

The flash drive isn't recognized either by hotplugging it or by inserting it into a USB port prior to a cold boot. The drive works fine in WinXP Home, SP2. I have the same problem when I insert the flash drive into any of my four USB ports.

"mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1" results in a message that says something like "/dev/sda1 isn't a block device."

I noticed that the following line appears in the startup message whether or not I have the flash drive installed when I boot - something like:

Code:

USB ports found, managed by hotplug: sync:[001  001  001  001   ]

Also, there is mention of hda and hdc initialization, but nothing about sda when I'm booting with the flash drive plugged in.

I would sure appreciate it if you could help me sort this out. I’d really like to be able to use my flash drive with Knoppix.

Many thanks,

Tom
Seattle

Note: the following snapshots were taken after a boot with the flash drive plugged in.

Partial output from dmesg:

Code:

   .
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd994, last bus=2
PCI: Using configuration type 1
   .
   .
   .
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 00:1f.1
Transparent bridge - Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB/EB PCI Bridge
   .
   .
   .
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
00:00:1f[A] -> 2-18 -> IRQ 18 level low
00:00:1f[B] -> 2-17 -> IRQ 17 level low
00:00:1d[A] -> 2-16 -> IRQ 16 level low
00:00:1d[B] -> 2-19 -> IRQ 19 level low
00:00:1d[D] -> 2-23 -> IRQ 23 level low
   .
   .
   .
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
   .
   .
   .
ICH5: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:1f.1
PCI: Enabling device 00:1f.1 (0005 -> 0007)
ICH5: chipset revision 2
ICH5: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1880-0x1887, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1888-0x188f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
   .
   .
   .
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
libata version 1.02 loaded.
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
   .
   .
   .
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 00:50:50 Aug  9 2004
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.0 to 64
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x1800, IRQ 16
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.1 to 64
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x1820, IRQ 19
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.2 to 64
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x1840, IRQ 18
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.3 to 64
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x1860, IRQ 16
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
ohci1394: $Rev: 1045 $ Ben Collins <[email protected]>
ohci1394_0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[16]  MMIO=[c2014000-c20147ff]  Max Packet=[2048]
sbp2: $Rev: 1074 $ Ben Collins <[email protected]>
ieee1394: sbp2: Driver forced to serialize I/O (serialize_io = 1)
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023]  GUID[00023f434700067c]
   .
   .
   .
PCI: Enabling device 02:04.0 (0000 -> 0002)
PCI: Enabling device 02:04.1 (0000 -> 0002)
ds: no socket drivers loaded!

cat /etc/fstab:

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/proc      /proc       proc   defaults            0 0
/sys       /sys        sysfs  noauto              0 0
/dev/pts   /dev/pts    devpts mode=0622           0 0
/dev/fd0   /mnt/auto/floppy auto   user,noauto,exec,umask=000    0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/auto/cdrom  auto   user,noauto,exec,ro 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ntfs noauto,users,exec,ro,umask=000,uid=knoppix,gid=knoppix 0 0

lspci -v:

Code:

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02)
	Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device ff00
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
	Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
	Capabilities: [e4] #09 [2106]
	Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 3.0

0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82865G/PE/P PCI to AGP Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 96
	Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=80
	Memory behind bridge: c1000000-c1ffffff
	Prefetchable memory behind bridge: e0000000-efffffff

0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #1 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
	Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device ff00
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
	I/O ports at 1800 [size=32]

0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #2 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
	Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device ff00
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
	I/O ports at 1820 [size=32]

0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #3 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
	Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device ff00
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
	I/O ports at 1840 [size=32]

0000:00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #4 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
	Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device ff00
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
	I/O ports at 1860 [size=32]

0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
	Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device ff00
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 23
	Memory at c0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
	Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
	Capabilities: [58] #0a [20a0]

0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
	Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=168
	I/O behind bridge: 00003000-00003fff
	Memory behind bridge: c2000000-c20fffff

0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Bridge (rev 02)
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) Ultra ATA 100 Storage Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
	Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device ff00
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
	I/O ports at <unassigned>
	I/O ports at <unassigned>
	I/O ports at <unassigned>
	I/O ports at <unassigned>
	I/O ports at 1880 [size=16]
	Memory at 40000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]

0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
	Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device ff00
	Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 17
	I/O ports at 18a0 [size=32]

0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
	Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device ff00
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
	I/O ports at 1c00 [size=256]
	I/O ports at 18c0 [size=64]
	Memory at c0000c00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
	Memory at c0000800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
	Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

0000:00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Generic])
	Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0001
	Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 17
	I/O ports at 2400 [size=256]
	I/O ports at 2000 [size=128]
	Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34M [GeForce FX Go 5200] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
	Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device ff00
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 40, IRQ 16
	Memory at c1000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
	Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
	Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=128K]
	Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
	Capabilities: [44] AGP version 3.0

0000:02:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB21 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
	Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device ff00
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16
	Memory at c2014000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
	Memory at c2010000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
	Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2

0000:02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
	Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device ff00
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 17
	I/O ports at 3000 [size=256]
	Memory at c2014800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
	Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

0000:02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Askey Computer Corp.: Unknown device 7058
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 18
	Memory at c2000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
	Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2

0000:02:04.0 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC95 PCI to Cardbus Bridge with ZV Support (rev 32)
	Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0001
	Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 168, IRQ 16
	Memory at 40001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
	Bus: primary=02, secondary=04, subordinate=04, sec-latency=0
	Memory window 0: 40400000-407ff000 (prefetchable)
	Memory window 1: 40800000-40bff000
	I/O window 0: 00004000-000040ff
	I/O window 1: 00004400-000044ff
	16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

0000:02:04.1 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC95 PCI to Cardbus Bridge with ZV Support (rev 32)
	Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0001
	Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 168, IRQ 17
	Memory at 40002000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
	Bus: primary=02, secondary=05, subordinate=05, sec-latency=0
	Memory window 0: 40c00000-40fff000 (prefetchable)
	Memory window 1: 41000000-413ff000
	I/O window 0: 00004800-000048ff
	I/O window 1: 00004c00-00004cff
	16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

0000:02:06.0 System peripheral: Toshiba America Info Systems SD TypA Controller (rev 03)
	Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device ff00
	Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 16
	Memory at c2014c00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
	Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

fdisk -l:

Code:

Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1        9729    78148161    7  HPFS/NTFS

uname -a:

Code:

Linux Knoppix 2.4.27 #2 SMP Mo Aug 9 00:39:37 CEST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux

**OErjan** · 02-11-2005, 07:18 PM

hmm i see no weird stuff ecept that sysfs bit.
have you tried kernel2.6 (it is on the cd)
actually it seems you both have mised about 2/3 of the info in dmesg i wanted.
issue this as ONE comand ALL of it(copy paste?), then it would be nice to see the whole output..

Code:

dmesg|grep ub&&dmesg|grep sd&&dmesg|grep usb

then i still want to know what version of hdd-installl you have. beginner? debian-style?...

**Tom2000** · 02-12-2005, 09:04 AM

OErjan,

Thanks very much.

I got tired of loading Knoppix to the ramdisk so I could burn a CD just to transfer the command output back to Win. Overkill. Today's project was re-sizing my NTFS partition, then creating a shared FAT32 partition (and a few Linux EXT3 and SWAP partitions while I was at it.)

I ran out of time today, so I'll continue testing tomorrow and post the results.

Again, many thanks.

Tom

**britt** · 02-12-2005, 10:41 AM

Hi OErjan,

thanks for your answer. Here is the output of dmesg you wanted:

Code:

britt@Osiris:~$ dmesg|grep ub&&dmesg|grep sd&&dmesg|grep usb
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
usb.c: registered new driver hub
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
maestro:  subvendor id: 0x000a103c
britt@Osiris:~$

What do you think of the"remount parameter error" that dmsg issued (see my last mail)?

Best regards
Britt

**britt** · 02-12-2005, 10:45 AM

Hi OErjan,

in addition to my last mail: I have tried kernel 2.6, which does not work either

regards
britt

**app** · 02-12-2005, 11:20 AM

I have basically the same problem, with laptop Fujitsu Amilo Pro V2000. Tried with 3.7, both kernel version.

**OErjan** · 02-12-2005, 11:37 AM

hmmm. how does it work if you insert the stick AFTER you have booted?
i use same brand of usbstick (128mb) antd that works.

eh, ok, do you have anything important on that stick?
if not you might try to format it under windows as fat32 (iirc i did that sometime) and retry in linux.

as to palm you use kpilot for that.
hmm, after boot insert your palm hotsync cable.
Push the hotsync button, then

Code:

tail /var/log/syslog/syslog

this will, hopefully, show what your palm is atached as, usually something like /dev/ttyUSB1.
then go trough the kpilot setup and use that /dev/XXXXusbY as your device.
I have not much experience with palm usb in linux, I use a serial conection to my palm.
there is a program it alows me to use the palm as a serial dumb terminal for linux (tiny text, and using the pen for input is a pain, but it is ok for weiving logs on the server...)
here you have some more on palm and knoppix
http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9387