On Monday, January 3, 2022 4:42:56 PM EST David Wright wrote: > On Mon 03 Jan 2022 at 04:33:53 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: > > On Sunday, January 2, 2022 10:47:08 PM EST David Wright wrote: > > > On Sun 02 Jan 2022 at 22:31:27 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: > > > > On Sunday, January 2, 2022 9:54:29 PM EST David Wright wrote: > > > > > On Sun 02 Jan 2022 at 17:53:19 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: > > > > > > Without any conscious prompting by me, te debian 11.1 netinstall > > > > > > for > > > > > > x86-64 systems installed and setup whatever was needed to bring > > > > > > the > > > > > > screen reader to life. > > > > > > > > > > I think it's happened to you before, in May 2019. Was something > > > > > plugged in when you installed your OS, that was misidentified? > > > > > > > > That is a possibility I suppose as there are, and were then too at > > > > least > > > > 10 usb devices plugged in 100% of the time, keyboard & mouse both > > > > wireless, 2 printers then, 1 left is an MFC so its a scanner too, a > > > > ups, a CM11a, two cameras (one is a movie w/firewire) and 7 other > > > > machines on net cables. That lis is incomplete so who knows what > > > > might > > > > be miss-id'd. > > > > > > ISTR there was some sort of fast serial device involved, and the > > > log you posted showed that it was fighting brltty, so that would > > > appear to be the most likely candidate. > > > > Hmmm, that triggers old memories, as it might be a 10 meter usb2 cable > > with booster hubs in both ends, which formerly connected the minicom > > program to a trs-80 color computer 3 in the basement via an rs232 card > > plugged into its multipack interface expander. But it wasn't very fast, > > the uart chip in it was all tapped out at 9600 baud, and rzsz was > > limited to about 7200 baud due to its loop size being one byte, I was > > always going to rewrite it to fully use the table lookup version of the > > crc calcs but never found a round tuit. it was highly dependent on flow > > control working, something that early uart chip did not do well. > > Prolific who made the rs232<>usb convertor on the end of that cable, > > never did quite get that right. > > > > But that 2 megs of ram "coco" has now died, 35 yo electroytics > > developing > > high ESR so its dead now, and despite my being a CET, I'm too lazy in my > > dotage to shotgun all the caps it it, but I believe that cable is still > > plugged in to one of several multiport usb 2 or 3 hubs on this machine. > > > > Do we still have a working usbtree like utility that might discover > > this? > > Such useful stuff seems to be falling off the edge in later versions of > > linux. > > I hadn't noticed that. I got a tree from lsusb -t and lsusb -v > gave me ~1000 lines despite saying that there were several devices > it couldn't open, so information would be missing.
And I hadn't noticed it had all been merged into one util that could do it all so a -t gets me 21 devices and 21 errors. a -v gets me 1480 lines, but no culprit seems to be waving its hand at me if piped to less. Two sio adapter's show up but s/b two as the cm11a needs one also. heyu does its thing for Christmas lights and such. > Cheers, > David. > > . Cheers David, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
