[gentoo-user] New motherboard, usb-problems etc.

[pk]

Hi,

I just put together a new computer composed of an Asus motherboard (AMD
990FX chipset, "Sabertooth" model, i.e. this one:
http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_AM3Plus/SABERTOOTH_990FX/).
Initially, the onboard usb devices worked fine in AMD64 Gentoo 11.0 live
cd (via usb stick), which I used to install my system. Now, all usb
ports (ohci & ehci except the xhci - 3.0 ones) seems dead (and, as it
seems, the onboard NIC Realtek 8111e). The usb stick that I used for the
Gentoo live doesn't boot (I've tried it in another computer as well) but
it seems fine to read & write to. The weird thing is that they seem to
work fine (I've tried different ports) in the UEFI bios (this fancy new
graphics based bios replacer where you can use the mouse to click on
settings). Currently I've put my 3-button usb mouse in the xhci port,
which works fine (although usb 3.0 are supposed to be strictly for
storage devices) but I find it quite annoying not being able to use any
of my "regular" usb ports. The error message I get when inserting a usb
device into any ohci/ehci port is (example):
usb 2-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 2-3: device descriptor read/64, error -32

All other hardware seems to work fine...

I've googled but can't find anything that helps. This is my first 64-bit
install (I've always used 32-bit before). Might there be a kernel option
that I've missed (or that I've shouldn't have set)? I've tried
gentoo-sources-2.6.37-r4, 2.6.38-r6 and 2.6.39-r3 (currently running
2.6.37-r4) but they all exhibit the same problem. Attaching my kernel
config for 2.6.37-r4. Of course this could also be a hardware problem
(but it's weird that the ports works in the UEFI bios screen in such
case)... Could it be the UEFI bios that somehow interferes with the
linux kernel?

I would be very grateful for any hints/things I could try!

Best regards

Peter K