Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 133897
Hotplu doesn't get run when usb devices are added on computers with ASUS P8P mainboard
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:10:02 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922 Description of problem: I noticed on some computers that adding a usb device doesn't activate hotplug, so the device doesn't become available (nothing in logs, no entries in /proc/bus/usb or /sys/bus/usb). Since it works on other machines with the same setup (installed using the same kickstart file), I think it is an issue with the hardware, probably the mainboard, which is an ASUS P8P (or P8P800SE) in all the cases where I encountered this bug. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): hotplug-2004_04_01-1 kudzu-1.1.68.2-1 kernel-2.6.7-1.494.2.2 or kernel-2.6.8-1.521 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot machine in kernel 2.6.7-1.492.2.2 or 2.6.8-1.521 2. plug in a usb device (tried with disk, camera, mouse) Actual Results: nothing happens (no device available, nothing in logs, no entries in /proc/bus/usb or /sys/bus/usb) Expected Results: device should have been detected by hotplug and made available to the system. Additional info: One of these machines still had kernel 2.6.6-1.435 installed, and there it works. Bug is the same with SMP kernels of those same releases. There is one way to make such devices work: if it is plugged in when the system is booted. So the usb mouse will usuallly work, only when the mouse gets unplugged by accident, this requires a reboot. No such workaround for flash keys, usb disks, cameras and probably other usb devices.
If it's not getting any messages at all, that's a kernel/driver bug.
Additional info: when I disable USB 2 in the BIOS on one of those machines, the kernel does see new devices when they are plugged in. So for USB 1 devices, this is a workaround, and maybe it gives the kernel develloppers a clue about the location of this bug.
FC3 works fine on these machines, with USB 2 enabled in the BIOS. I'll try the 2.6.9 kernel from updates-testing on FC2 tomorrow to see if it solved the problem there also.
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