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[Mark Haney]

Karl Larsen wrote:
>     I have a box that plugs into a USB port which turns on this thing:
> 
> [179616.248181] usb 2-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and 
> address 3
> [179616.977704] usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> karl at karl-hardy:~$
> 
> This is dmsg | tail and I have no idea what ehci_hcd is and what it 
> does, if anything :-)
> 
> The box is supposed to output video and audio in a MPEG-2 compression 
> formate. The darn thing will not work on Linux it appears.
> 
> Karl
> 

You have a box?  A BOX?  Could you be any less specific than that?  What 
kind of box?  What vendor? How can you say it won't work on linux until 
you know what it is and does?  'supposed' is not definitive enough to me 
to tell me anything.

To answer the question you asked (and told the other person trying to 
help you, that his answer was worthless because of not having it) the 
ehci is the USB controller interface.  A quick google of EHCI would have 
told you that.  All this tells you is that a new USB 2.0 device was 
connected on address 3.  Every USB device will log that in dmesg.

So, as far as I'm concerned, without adequate information, your question 
is worthless.




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