On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 05:57:01PM -0400, Jerome R. Acks wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 11:35:35PM +0930, David Purton wrote:
> > Does anyone have an idea why a usb pen drive would be detected and work
> > fine using the usb ports on the back of my shuttle xpc SB62G2, but is
> > not even detected as plugged in when using the front ports?
> >
> > Googling suggests that this might be due to some front usb ports not
> > delivering enough power to the drive.
> >
> > Are there any other software problems that might cause this or must I
> > just live with it?
>
> I had a similar problem with USB devices about a year ago. Some device
> would be recognized if plugged into a front port and not recognized
> if plugged into a rear port.
>
> What I conluded was the 2.4.20 through 2.4.25 kernels I was using did
> not completely support my motherboard, which has an nVidia nForce2
> chipset and USB controller, since switching to a 2.6 kernel fixed the
> problem. I am currently using a Debian kernel-image-2.6.5-1-k7. I've
> also tried 2.6.7-1-k7 and 2.6.8-1-k7 but have had some problems with
> them.
>
> If you have fairly new hardware, your current kernel drivers may not
> completely support it.
>
mmm could be. This is a fairly new machine running woody with a 2.4.26
kernel.
When sarge goes stable, I'll probably upgrade to a 2.6 kernel and see if
that helps things.
Thanks.
dc
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