Description of Problem: the following errors appear in messages and during boot: test108 modprobe: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters test108 modprobe: /lib/modules/2.4.18-0.4smp/kernel/drivers/usb/usb-uhci.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.18-0.4smp/kernel/drivers/usb/usb-uhci.o failed test108 modprobe: /lib/modules/2.4.18-0.4smp/kernel/drivers/usb/usb-uhci.o: insmod usb-uhci failed test108 rc.sysinit: Initializing USB controller (usb-uhci): failed Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.4.18-0.4smp Skipjack-re0320.0 How Reproducible: 100% Additional Information: from lspci -v: 00:02.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Flags: medium devsel I/O ports at 1020 [size=32] Also, I can't find any USB ports on the box, and no mention of USB in the BIOS settings. linux-up does weird things in it's own way: usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 10:41:31 Mar 13 2002 usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x1020, IRQ 5 usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 hub.c: USB hub found usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 30 usb-uhci.c: Host controller halted, trying to restart. <message repeated 4 more times> usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver usb-uhci.c: Host controller halted, trying to restart. <message repeated 6 more times> Each time the system is booted with linux-up, kudzu re-detects/configures the USB device.
That's a super broken box. BTW, observe that lspci sees no IRQ, while the driver fetches IRQ 5 from the *pci_dev. I suggest adding "nousb" to the command line. If kudzu keeps bouncing after that, take if up with the kudzu owner as well.
Looks like the vendor never fitted USB to the machine but forgot to set the bits to disable the port in the BIOS. We correctly detect the hardware, we assign an IRQ thinking the BIOS is PnP mode and as you'd expect the hardware then finds that the USB link isnt working too well Moved to kudzu - Im curious why kudzu doesnt just decide it exists and be done with it, or decided its horked and settle it for once
RHL7 is end of life, but this bug might still be interesting if its repeatable with modern distros. Can you find out if this is fixed in latest Fedora release?
Closing out bugs on older, no longer supported releases. Apologies for any lack of response. Please attempt to confirm with more recent releases.