On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 18:13:58 +0200, Bilbo wrote:

>
> Hi there,
>
> I've got a problem on my hands with the use of my USB Memory sticks in
> slackware 9.1
>
> I am pretty sure they work in 9.0 (used them at work yesterday AND had
> 9.0 on this box before), but in 9.1 I am getting syslog messages like
> these:
>
> Oct 25 18:02:24 bilbo kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
> Oct 25 18:02:24 bilbo kernel: usb-ohci.c: unlink URB timeout
> Oct 25 18:02:24 bilbo kernel: usb.c: USB device not accepting new
> address=4 (error=-110)
> Oct 25 18:02:29 bilbo kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
> Oct 25 18:02:29 bilbo kernel: usb-ohci.c: unlink URB timeout
> Oct 25 18:02:29 bilbo kernel: usb.c: USB device not accepting new
> address=5 (error=-110)
>
> Googled on this offcourse but did not realy understood what I found.
> What I found sugests that it is a BIOS problem. Something about the IRQ
> not being properly assigned.
> But why did they work when I had 9.0 installed?
>
> These are the modules I have got loaded
>
> root@bilbo:/proc/scsi# lsmod |grep usb
> usb-ohci 19016 0 (unused)
> usb-storage 69472 0 (unused)
> usbcore 62016 1 [usb-ohci usb-storage]
>
> The usb-storage was loaded by me because it seemed logical - to me -
> that is is needed.
>
> Saw some talk about booting problems from USB media here on aols. What I
> picked up from it sugests that the - proper - USB support is lacking
> from bare.i.
> So I had a look at the kernel config for bare.i but could not see
> anything in the USB section that atracted my attention as being wrong.
>
> Peter
>
> PS
> Come to think of it.... it is not just the USB sticks.... I have got a
> digital camera (Nikon) which I could acces as a storage device on 9.0
> which too does not work any more.

Well for me all I did was make a dir in mnt, and the in fstab I add the
line:

/dev/sda1 /mnt/usb-drive vfat user 0 0

And never had a problem since. I also get the same messages during boot,
but I can use all of my USB devices fine.

HTH.