Hi, I have a Packard Bell Easy one+ laptop with and AMD k6-3 550Mhz CPU and Apollo MVP4 motherboard. USB is UHCI (rev 0a). BIOS is phoenix. Currently using Kernel 2.4.18 have had same problem on most of 2.4.x series.
I have had a problem with Linux and usb on this laptop for some time with messages like: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=2 (error=-110) The only way I could get anything out of it was to play an audio file while using the USB bus, obviously a IRQ problem. However one day after updating my BIOS I suddenly discovered that an IRQ was being assigned to the USB bus properly and that it was being shared with the sound card! Great! Everything worked perfectly. Then all of a sudden it stopped. To cut a long story short, I eventually worked out that whenever I booted the machine into windows (which I do very infrequently) it somehow messes up the BIOS so that IRQs arn't assigned properly in linux and the ONLY way to get USB back in linux is to use the same BIOS update disk to reset all the BIOS/CMOS settings. Suffice to say that windows only screws USB up sufficiently so that it won't work in anything else but Window$.. Sadly in my BIOS setup there is NO option for setting a non-PNP-OS. The obvious solution is never to boot into windows unless I want to reset the bios again - obviously not ideal but a practical solution - only ever use windows for games anyway, vmware has usb support (that works v. well) and win4lin does everything else. I welcome any suggestions for a more permanent solution. Thanks, sam _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
