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From: Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] USB-BT211 causing udev to fail, related to usb3, how to disable?
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 14:07:33
Message-Id: CA+czFiCsWYgfOAa=DsNtKoEnDxsKY=hVJkvaZHgui+45VWCVYA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] USB-BT211 causing udev to fail, related to usb3, how to disable? by jonas.narstrom@gmail.com
1 On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 8:25 AM, <jonas.narstrom@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > lördagen den 13 augusti 2011 07.54.37 skrev  Michael Mol:
3 >> On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 6:23 AM,  <jonas.narstrom@×××××.com> wrote:
4 >> >
5 >> > I have an ASUS USB-BT211 bluetooth dongle, I have never been able to make
6 > it
7 >> > work and it causes udev to fail at startup and sending the following msg
8 > to
9 >> > the syslog:
10 >> >
11 >> > 2011-08-13T09:45:30+02:00 poff udevd[5235]: timeout 'usb_id --export
12 >> > /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:12.0/usb3'
13 >> >
14 >> > This seems to be related to usb3, however, neither the mobo (ASUS M4A79XTD
15 >> > EVO) nor the the installed kernel has usb3 support; if related to usb3 is
16 >> > expected.
17 >
18 > *... if related to usb3 faiure is expected.
19 >
20 >> >
21 >> > Acording to the ASUS website the bluetooth dongle should work with usb2.
22 >> >
23 >> > Is there a way to disable usb3 in udev and force it to use usb2 for the
24 >> > device?
25 >>
26 >> You can find udev's action rules under /etc/udev/ ... Maybe you'll
27 >> find what you need there.
28 >>
29 >> Note that most motherboards don't make every port USB3. In fact, I
30 >> haven't yet seen one yet that does. If you look next to the port, you
31 >> may see the text 'USB3'...try plugging your dongle into a different
32 >> port from that one.
33 >>
34 >> The other thing you might do is disable USB3 in your kernel
35 >> configuration or BIOS. (Enable UHCI and EHCI, disable XHCI). Make sure
36 >> you have a PS/2 keyboard on hand, just in case.
37 >>
38 >> On the other hand, it could just be that your dongle doesn't work;
39 >> that error sounds suspiciously like a misbehaving USB device. Try it
40 >> in a different system.
41 >>
42 >>
43 >
44 > Since there are no usb3 ports on the motherboard I do not think changing ports
45 > will work
46
47 Yeah, I misinterpreted sysfs. I'd suspected (as victor pointed out)
48 that 'usb3' in your sysfs path just referred to "which" port, so I'd
49 done a "find /sys|grep usb". But then I misread the result. And your
50 email, apparently. :-|
51
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53 :wq