[ltp] USB died on my T42p

[Kelvin KAN]

Hello,

Does the probelm only occur in the "p" models i.e. T41p & T42p, or also 
in all other non-p T4X models?

Thanks,
-
kelvin.


Meidinger Chris wrote:

> Hi David and All,
>
>this happened to my t42p for the second time in as many months, and i got an
>IBM tech that i know pretty well and he told me this is a series problem.
>
>Any motherboards replaced after the end of January 2005 should be fine,
>motherboards produced before then are subject to these problems. 
>
>IBM won't bat an eye when you tell them your USB is gone, and they should
>have someone out to replace it within a day or two. 
>
>(Also, the symptoms are exactly right: your usb hubs will be detected, but
>there is no hotplug event when you connect a device.)
>
>Cheers,
>
>Chris
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: linux-thinkpad-admin@linux-thinkpad.org 
>>[mailto:linux-thinkpad-admin@linux-thinkpad.org] On Behalf Of 
>>David Ayers
>>Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 2:50 PM
>>To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
>>Subject: Re: [ltp] USB died on my T42p
>>
>>Thanks, Carsten. That is exactly what is happening. I will be 
>>calling IBM
>>for fixing.
>>
>>Dave
>>
>>On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 09:57:44 +0100
>>Carsten Heinelt <carsten@cadence.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>   we had two failures of USB in our company with T41p's. 
>>>
>>The operating
>>
>>>systems still saw USB, but devices were not recognized anymore. IBM
>>>replaced the mainboards.
>>>
>>>Carsten.
>>>
>>>David Ayers wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 18:09:31 -0500
>>>>James Knott <james.knott@rogers.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>David Ayers wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>Hello all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>My usb ports suddenly went dead, and I suspect a 
>>>>>>
>>hardware problem. I
>>
>>>>>>can boot several SUSE 9.2 systems, as well as Windows 
>>>>>>
>>XP-Pro. None
>>
>>>>of>>them now recognize a usb device.
>>>>
>>>>>>/proc/bus/usb/devices looks normal, except that when a 
>>>>>>
>>usb device is
>>
>>>>>>plugged in, nothing happens. Hotplug is enabled, and there is no
>>>>>>
>>>>clue>>in the boot message that I can see. 
>>>>
>>>>>>Before I start fighting the battle with IBM, I would 
>>>>>>
>>like to know if
>>
>>>>>>there are any diagnostics that would nail it down as a hardware
>>>>>>problem (or not)?
>>>>>>
>>>>>Does the problem happen with only one device?  Or a few?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I use a PalmOne Zire 31, a HP 7550 printer, a Creative Nomad Zen
>>>>Xtra. They all used to work fine. Now none of them will be
>>>>recognized. I've pretty well decided it's hardware, probably
>>>>motherboard.
>>>>
>>>>Thanks for the response.
>>>>
>>>>Dave
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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>>>
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>>
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