Alan Stern wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Aras Vaichas wrote:
>>We suspect we might be having some problems with a radiation source of around 
>>13MHz that might be causing problems with the 12Mbps full speed USB, we'd 
>>like 
>>to try running it at the 1.5Mbps speed to see if this fixes the problem (and 
>>confirms our suspicions).
>>
>>As a quick test I tried moving the pull-up resistor to the D- line, but that 
>>doesn't work and the host doesn't recognise the device at all.
> 
> You don't even get a "low-speed device connected" message in the debugging 
> log?  That's surprising; nothing more than a pull-up resistor should be 
> needed for that.  Even with no device controller at all you should still 
> get that message.

Sorry, I forgot to mention that. Yes I do get low level system messages, but it 
doesn't go any further. I guess I meant "at all" and not "at all at all" :P

Aug  2 14:08:36 gentoo usb 1-6: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and 
address 40
Aug  2 14:08:36 gentoo usb 1-6: device descriptor read/64, error -110
Aug  2 14:08:36 gentoo usb 1-6: device descriptor read/64, error -110
...
Aug  2 14:08:38 gentoo usb 1-6: device not accepting address 43, error -110


> No you can't.  The requirements for low-speed devices are more strict than 
> they are for full-speed devices.  For example, the maxpacket value of ep0 
> has to be 8 at low speed, but it is allowed to be any power of 2 between 8 
> and 64 at full speed.  Also, iso and bulk transfers are allowed at full 
> speed but they are illegal at low speed.
> 
> Not to mention that the electrical signals on the bus differ for the two 
> speeds.  Hardware capable of working with 12 MHz signals might not be 
> capable of working with 1.5 MHz signals.
> 
> Alan Stern

Thanks, this is useful to know.

regards,

Aras Vaichas

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