From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040719 Firefox/0.9.1 Description of problem: HP rx2620/rx2600 systems see these kind of messages on bootup: usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x47b/0x2) is not claimed by any active driver. PCI: Found IRQ 51 for device 00:01.2 ehci-hcd 00:01.2: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 ehci-hcd 00:01.2: irq 51, pci mem c000000080000000 usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3 ehci-hcd 00:01.2: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 0.95, driver 2003-Jan-22 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 5 ports detected usb.c: error getting string descriptor 0 (error=-110) usb.c: error getting string descriptor 0 (error=-110) usb.c: error getting string descriptor 0 (error=-110) usb.c: error getting string descriptor 0 (error=-110) USB still works, but the messages are annoying Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.4.21-15.EL How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot rx2600 w/ USB mouse & keyboard 2. 3. Actual Results: benign (I assume) error messages Expected Results: no errors Additional info: Problem actually seen on RHEL3U1
Surely this is related to a particular keyboard? I had quite a bit of trouble with HP keyboard in the past. A Compaq keyboard, IIRC, was the one which caused QUIRK_NOGET to be added in the first place.
I'm going to close this. Please file a bug against a current release if this is still a problem. It's possible that the RHEL 4 prints those messages too, although it's hard to be sure without trying. As a side note, I was wrong to associage fetching of string descriptors with the NOGET quirk, which governs fetching of HID reports.