USB on Linux

[manchicken]

On Wednesday 01 August 2007 06:52:26 Neil Winchurst wrote:
> Recently I had a look at my USB ports on my computer. This computer was
> built to my specs last year.
>
> I have four ports. I used kinfocenter to look at them. Three of them
> report as USB1.10.  The fourth one reports as USB2.0. Today I asked
> about this in the shop and I am assured that all the USB ports should
> be showing as USB2.0.
>
> I am wondering if this is simply kubuntu (or Linux) misreading
> something, or for some reason failing to recognise three of them. Can
> anyone throw a little light on this please?
>
> Thanks
>
> Neil Winchurst

I have never heard of this issue.  If these ports are part of a USB hub, it 
may be the hub.  Many hardware manufacturers use USB hubs on the front or 
back of machines to increase the number of ports they have.  These USB hubs 
sometimes don't support USB2.0 in my experience.  I've also noticed that 
sometimes these USB ports don't work very well at all.

I'd be surprised if this was a GNU/Linux or Kubuntu-related issue.

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