USB refuses to work

[Florian Diesch]

"Serg B." <sergicles at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I installed Edgy and my USB (flash) key and portable USB drive stopped working.
>
> They work fine on Dapper (other machines in the house) so I know that
> the hardware is working fine. Also when I connect my iPod (also no
> longer recognised) it starts charging, keyboard and mouse work fine
> via USB so I know the USB ports work...
>
> lsmod|grep usb shows the following:
>
> :~$ lsmod | grep -i usb
> usb_storage            73408  0
> libusual               15632  1 usb_storage
> usbhid                 42464  0
> usbcore               130304  6 usb_storage,libusual,usbhid,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd
> scsi_mod              141320  2 usb_storage,libata
>
>
> :~$ dmesg | grep -i usb shows the following:

Use
 sudo tail -f /var/log/syslog
before connecting the USB devices and have a look what's happening there.



> [17179586.936000] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
> [17179586.936000] usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
> [17179586.936000] USB Mass Storage support registered.
> [17179763.484000] usb 4-8: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd
> and address 4

The interesting part just starts here


   Florian
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