Re: What USB3 chipsets are supported by the Jessie kernels?

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com>]

On Aug 31, 2015, at 12:17 AM, rlharris@oplink.net wrote:

> On Mon, August 31, 2015 1:58 am, Rick Thomas wrote:
>> Does anybody know which USB3 interface chipsets are supported by the
>> current Debian Jessie kernel?
> 
> You may already have done this, but, if not, you might try searching
> google for "linux usb3".  The first two hits are recent posts.
> 
> RLH

Good hint…

I came across this

    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1242321

In note #46 there, James Ralston suggests turning off “auto suspend” on the relevant USB device by doing

> $ for F in /sys/bus/usb/devices/*/power/control; do echo on >”${F}"; done

I haven’t tried it yet, but it’s almost the only hope I’ve found so far.

Lots of folks say their USB3 ports work fine under Windoze but fail (in various ways) under Linux, so it’s not likely to be the hardware at fault (or at least, if the hardware is broken, MS has a workaround that Linux doesn’t).  I don’t have a working Windows boot disk for this machine, so I can’t check if my situation is similar.

There are several threads from the Ubuntu forums (I’m using Debian Stretch, but I’ll take any port in a storm!) indicating that a *lot* of people are encountering similar problems with USB3.