Shannon,
Thanks for the informative reply. Can I just downgrade the kernel
to 2.4 and expect other things not to break?
--Bob Solovay
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Shannon C. Dealy wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Robert M. Solovay wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Shannon C. Dealy wrote:
> >
> > . Now if they could
> > > just fix the [EMAIL PROTECTED] problems with USB in the latest 2.6
> > > kernels.
> >
> > What are these problems? I was planning to upgrade to Fedora Core
> > 3 [so that I can use Firefox.] But if one can't use USB 2.0 that's a
> > showstopper.
>
> With kernel 2.6.8, I can't get it to work with either of my external USB
> 2.0 drives (two different vendors), after some digging I was able to
> find some discussion of the problem, which was basically one or more
> people involved in the USB core code claiming that vendors are violating
> USB specs and that their code expects compliance. Don't know if this is
> actually the case (and don't currently have time to check), but, ALOT of
> people are apparently having problems with this, late 2.4 and early 2.6
> kernels did work with USB 2.0 (i.e. both of my drives), and regardless of
> whether or not their assessment is correct, their handling of this needs
> to be changed. Overall, I have never been overly impressed with the USB
> drive handling, they keep forgetting to put timeouts and error recovery in
> their code, it should NEVER be necessary to reboot the system to clear an
> error, particularly in a module loaded at run time (worst case you should
> simply be able to unload and reload the module), but unfortunately, USB
> handling has problems in this area and a reboot is the only cure (even in
> 2.4 kernels though it doesn't happen to me very often). If I had any
> time I'd fix it myself as this kind of problem shouldn't be that
> complicated, it's mostly just the time it takes to learn someone else's
> code that's the killer. Anyway, I'm back using 2.4 kernels, 2.6 still
> isn't ready for prime time, power management is also at least
> partially broken, and I've seen other problems. Frankly, 2.6.4 seemed to
> work better than 2.6.8, but user-mode-linux (UML) didn't work with the
> older 2.6 kernels and I use UML heavily.
>
> FWIW.
>
> Shannon C. Dealy | DeaTech Research Inc.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - Custom Software Development -
> | Embedded Systems, Real-time, Device Drivers
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>
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