[ltp] USB died on my T42p

David Ayers linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 21 Mar 2005 07:50:01 -0600


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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