Exactly, The Palm never connects - and I am waiting on those 'new USB device' messages to appear in syslog - they never do. In an attempt to simplify things I disabled hotplug by removing it from my kernel compile; so it's not active now. Was I wrong - is hotplug required?
My USB ports are there, loaded with the right drivers, but not responding or re-acting to the Palm device at all. Right now I don't know how to verify that my USB subsystem is working correctly!? I'm looking for another USB device to just see if those 'new USB device' message appear for any device at all. I do have a USB (SD)card reader, a Lexmark USB printer, and a couple of USB Cameras. I may try one of them tonight.
With all the Kernel option turned on, and the correct modules loaded without errors. I am baffled. Modules(usbcore.o, usb-ohci.o, ehci=hcd.o, usbserial.o, visor.o) all load without error, and their environment of /dev & /proc values - including interrupts - all seem to be present. I even noticed in someone elses syslogs a NEC USB 2.0 controller, which is what I have - so I assume the controller is supported.
Suspicious of the mainboard AMD768 USB support, I disabled it in bois; since I have a seperate USB card. I have even reviewed all the SMP related issues - like MPS ACPI support to no avail. Everything else seems stable.
I think I have set dubug=1 on every modules that I can and still no error messages. Without them (emsgs), I don't know which modules to look at first.
Thanks,
don wrote:
I don't see anything in your log contents or in /proc/bus/usb/devices showing that the palm is connected. Was it connected at boot, or later.
When it is connected, there should be messages starting with something like this:
Jan 4 16:44:31 reid1 kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:07.2-2.2, assigned address 18
Then either a message from a driver or:
Jan 4 16:44:31 reid1 kernel: usb.c: USB device 18 (vend/prod 0x957/0x199) is not claimed by any active driver.
Your vend/prod numbers will be different, that wasn't a Palm device.
If no driver claims the device, then you need hotplug to find and install the right driver. What do you get from "cat /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug" (/sbin/hotplug)? With hotplug there will be more log messages.
Post your reply to the list if you have more messages, I'm far from an expert on this.
Don Reid
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