From: simonleung@gmx.com (Simon Leung)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: likely kernel/driver problem with 3G USB stick
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 16:41:56 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D6D21D4.7000307@gmx.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110301163701.GA29554@kroah.com>
On 01/03/11 16:37, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 04:10:43PM +0000, Simon Leung wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm having a problem with my 3G USB stick (Huawei E220) .
>>
>> The kernel I'm using is version 2.6.21 customized for an ARM board. When
>> I insert the USB stick into the system, normally 3 device show up:
>> /dev/ttyUSB{0,1,2}. The problem I' having is that some time, only the
>> first one shows up and I cannot connect to it. When this happens,
>> normally a reboot will fix it.
>>
>> As I said, this sounds like a kernel/driver issue to me. Could somebody
>> give me some pointers as how to prove/fix it?
> As you are stuck with an obsolete kernel version, please get support
> from the vendor of that kernel, it is very old and we can't do much, if
> anything, about it :(
>
> Can you duplicate this problem on a modern kernel (like one released in
> the past year?)
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>
I know. I probably can (and probably will) upgrade the kernel and the
problem will probably go away. But I'd like to take the opportunity and
hopefully learn something. Even knowing which part of the kernel is
handling the usb serial device is fine.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-01 16:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-01 16:10 likely kernel/driver problem with 3G USB stick Simon Leung
2011-03-01 16:37 ` Greg KH
2011-03-01 16:41 ` Simon Leung [this message]
2011-03-01 16:56 ` Greg KH
2011-03-02 17:33 ` John Mahoney
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