[svlug] USB with ubuntu 10.04 on thinkpad t41?

[Larry Colen]

On Oct 5, 2010, at 2:39 AM, Larry Colen wrote:

> I recently upgraded to ubuntu 10.04 on my Thinkpad t41to start developing droid applications. 
> Upgrading from 8.10 meant wiping out everything that was on my drive and installing 10.04.
> 
> The problem that I'm running into is that my machine won't mount USB drives, including the droid.  That isn't quite true, because it seems that sometimes, after the droid has been connected via USB for a while, it will eventually start talking to the T41.


This morning, the USB SD card was mounted.

[15504.473906] hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 4
[15504.732083] usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
[15504.871138] usb 3-2: not running at top speed; connect to a high speed hub
[15504.899445] usb 3-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[15505.022648] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
[15505.022802] scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[15505.022991] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[15505.022995] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[15505.036647] usb-storage: device found at 2
[15505.036652] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[15510.037374] usb-storage: device scan complete
[15510.040574] scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access Generic USB SD Reader 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[15510.043333] scsi 2:0:0:1: Direct-Access Generic USB MS Reader 1.03 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[15510.049372] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[15510.051317] sd 2:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
[15510.557244] sd 2:0:0:1: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
[15510.560277] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 1984000 512-byte logical blocks: (1.01 GB/968 MiB)
[15510.565224] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[15510.565238] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[15510.565246] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[15510.627181] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[15510.627193] sdb: sdb1
[15510.651279] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[15510.651295] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
> 
> Mind you, with ubuntu 10.04 on my desktop machine, I don't seem to have any of these problems.
> 
> I've gone into System Settings->Advanced User Settings->Removable devices and unchecked the "Only automatically mount removable media that has been manually mounted before" setting.
> 
> When I do a dmesg I get 
> unable to enumerate USB device on port 3 (or port 4)
> 
> I've tried with both gnome and KDE desktops.
> 
> dmesg is also giving me  "new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address xxx" message where xxx is an increasing number.
> 
> This happens with both SD cards and my droid.
> 
> Has anyone else had, and solved, a similar problem?
> 
>   Larry
> 
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