I've seen some USB issues, but in my case I do not have a USB drive.
What I've seen are what appears to be some race conditions that cause my
keyboard (NMB Dell USB 7HK Keyboard) to not be recognized on boot
sometimes.
A shutdown / reboot seems to fix the problem. It does not happen every
time, but it does happen.
I can convince my keyboard to not be recognized every time by moving
/etc/modprobe.conf.dist to /etc/modprobe.conf.
A reboot with the distributed modprobe.conf installed disables my
keyboard in single, init 3, and init 5 modes. Only a rescue disk reboot
and a restoration of my production modprobe.conf file solves the
problem.
The only line I have in my modprobe.conf file that concerns UCB devices
is the following:
alias usb-controller uhci-hcd
In addition to the Dell keyboard, I have a Logitech USB optical mouse
attached to the same internal USB hub.
In detail from dmesg after a successful reboot:
Linux version 2.6.5-1.358 (bhcompile@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version
3.3.3 20040412 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.3-7)) #1 Sat May 8 09:04:50 EDT 2004
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000002ff77000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000002ff77000 - 000000002ff79000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000002ff79000 - 0000000030000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee10000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
767MB LOWMEM available.
zapping low mappings.
On node 0 totalpages: 196471
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 192375 pages, LIFO batch:16
HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 DELL ) @ 0x000fd560
ACPI: RSDT (v001 DELL 8200 0x00000008 ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x000fd574
ACPI: FADT (v001 DELL 8200 0x00000008 ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x000fd5a8
ACPI: SSDT (v001 DELL st_ex 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0xfffe5ea1
ACPI: MADT (v001 DELL 8200 0x00000008 ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x000fd61c
ACPI: BOOT (v001 DELL 8200 0x00000008 ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x000fd678
ACPI: DSDT (v001 DELL dt_ex 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x808
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
mapped 4G/4G trampoline to ffff3000.
Initializing CPU#0
CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=02345000 soft=02344000
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order 12: 32768 bytes)
Detected 1994.200 MHz processor.
Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Memory: 775976k/785884k available (1540k kernel code, 9124k reserved,
599k data, 144k init, 0k highmem)
Calibrating delay loop... 3948.54 BogoMIPS
Security Scaffold v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux: Initializing.
SELinux: Starting in permissive mode
There is already a security framework initialized, register_security
failed.
Failure registering capabilities with the kernel
selinux_register_security: Registering secondary module capability
Capability LSM initialized
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU: After all inits, caps: 3febf3ff 00000000 00000000 00000080
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU#0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz stepping 04
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfbeae, last bus=2
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Level Trigger.
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCI1._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs *3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 *10 11 12 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *9 10 11 12 15)
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] enabled at IRQ 9
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 3
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 11
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: if you experience problems, try using option 'pci=noacpi' or even
'acpi=off'
Simple Boot Flag at 0x7a set to 0x1
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
apm: overridden by ACPI.
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1086348023.620:0): initialized
Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
SELinux: Registering netfilter hooks
Initializing Cryptographic API
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1)
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected an Intel i850 Chipset.
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 690M
agpgart: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0xd0000000
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
divert: not allocating divert_blk for non-ethernet device lo
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
ICH2: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
ICH2: chipset revision 4
ICH2: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
hda: MAXTOR 6L080J4, ATA DISK drive
hdb: WDC WD600BB-00CAA1, ATA DISK drive
Using cfq io scheduler
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hdc: SONY CD-RW CRX230E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 156355584 sectors (80054 MB) w/1819KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63,
UDMA(100)
hda: hda1 hda2
hdb: max request size: 128KiB
hdb: 117231408 sectors (60022 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63,
UDMA(100)
hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3 hdb4 < hdb5 >
hdc: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM CD-R/RW CD-MRW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new driver hid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
input: PS/2 Generic Mouse on isa0060/serio1
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
Initializing IPsec netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5)
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an
initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 185k freed
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 144k freed
SELinux: Disabled at runtime.
SELinux: Unregistering netfilter hooks
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device 022db720(lo)
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
divert: not allocating divert_blk for non-ethernet device sit0
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
<!-- USB Stuff starts here -->
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: UHCI Host Controller
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: irq 11, io base 0000ff80
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.4: UHCI Host Controller
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.4 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.4: irq 9, io base 0000ff60
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.4: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using address 2
hub 1-1:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-1:1.0: 3 ports detected
EXT3 FS on hdb5, internal journal
usb 1-2: new low speed USB device using address 3
device-mapper: 4.1.0-ioctl (2003-12-10) initialised: dm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [B16_b_02 USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse] on
usb-0000:00:1f.2-2
usb 1-1.1: new full speed USB device using address 4
input: USB HID v1.00 Keyboard [NMB Dell USB 7HK Keyboard] on
usb-0000:00:1f.2-1.1
input,hiddev96: USB HID v1.00 Device [NMB Dell USB 7HK Keyboard] on
usb-0000:00:1f.2-1.1
<!-- USB stuff ends here -->
cdrom: open failed.
Adding 530136k swap on /dev/hdb3. Priority:-1 extents:1
Adding 530104k swap on /dev/hdb2. Priority:-2 extents:1
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hdb1, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
NTFS driver 2.1.7 [Flags: R/W MODULE].
NTFS volume version 3.0.
IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.13 <tigran@xxxxxxxxxxx>
microcode: No suitable data for cpu 0
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport0: irq 7 detected
parport0: Printer, EPSON Stylus COLOR 880
SCSI subsystem initialized
inserting floppy driver for 2.6.5-1.358
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.0.17
e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2004 Intel Corporation
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0xfe2ef000, irq 11, MAC addr
00:07:E9:00:DB:84
divert: freeing divert_blk for eth0
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.0.17
e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2004 Intel Corporation
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0xfe2ef000, irq 11, MAC addr
00:07:E9:00:DB:84
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport0: irq 7 detected
parport0: Printer, EPSON Stylus COLOR 880
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
lp0: console ready
<!-- Missing USB event field -->
drivers/usb/input/hid-input.c: event field not found
<!-- End of missing USB event field -->
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64
intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 49487 usecs
intel8x0: clocking to 41161
I've marked off the USB stuff with html comment (<!-- -->) lines.
Everything is detected, however there is a missing event field note
toward the end of the messages.
Some tracing / debugging is certainly in order.
/mde/
just my two cents . . . .
