[ltp] T42: USB2 port way too slow

James Knott linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sat, 17 Jun 2006 13:14:03 -0400


Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My T42 ships with 2 hi-speed USB ports. They're managed boy ehci-hcd 
> kernel modules, the only ones loaded into memory.
> 
> Anyway, I get super slow data transfer rates and I can't understand 
> why:

There are some kernel issues (IIRC) that cause that.  In SUSE 10.0, it
was originally OK, then an updated kernel caused that problem.  However,
with SUSE 10.1, it again works fine.