On Sun, 17 Mar 2002 21:55, Matthias Murra wrote: > Hi Brad, > > thanks a lot for your reply! > > >Looks like a hardware problem. Why do you think this is a Linux problem? > > I don't necessarily think it's a Linux problem, but with the USB tools > available on Linux, I thought I'd have a better chance of getting to > the root of the problem. What I am trying to figure out is: Is it the > keyboard that's just not going to work with this laptop, is the USB > chip or bus broken, is the BIOS that's somehow not functioning the way it > should, or what else is keeping this from working? And it seemed to > work for a little while on Linux, which is the OS that I want to use > it with. It isn't possible to tell for sure, but I'd guess a hardware problem with the keyboard (since you said the mouse works, presumably with the same port).
> >The contents of /proc/bus/usb/devices, with just the keyboard connected, > >would confirm this. > > See below. I see no keyboard device. Is that what you were expecting to Is this with _only_ the keyboard connected. Looks like you have a compact flash reader connected. Is this built in? > happen if it was a hardware problem? Does the following line from the Hardware problems aren't that easy to diagnose, but a device not showing any connection is normally something toasted :( > dmesg output point in that same direction: > > usb.c: unable to get device descriptor (error=-110) > > What can I do to find out just what piece of hardware (see above) is > causing this problem? This is potentially a timing problem with the kernel. You might be able to resolve that by upgrading to a really current kernel (like 2.4.19-pre). _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
