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From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: WLAN USB at boot time not recognized
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 15:50:03 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200409150850.03277.david-b@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13924.1095073516@www29.gmx.net>

On Monday 13 September 2004 4:05 am, Thomas Herrmann wrote:
> 
> My remote system uses a WLAN USB device for network. Everything works fine
> if I plug the WLAN USB stick in while the system is up and running. Just if
> the stick is already plugged in when the system boots, it does not get
> recognized while the hotplug service loads the USB controller modules.....
> 
> It's using plain kernel 2.6.7 in a Gentoo environment. The hardware is a
> SIS740 chipset and I want to use the internal USB controllers.

Some USB devices seem to need power cycling to enumerate properly,
and not all motherboards are wired so that Linux can do that.

You might have better luck hooking that device up through an
external hub.

- Dave


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-09-15 15:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-13 11:05 WLAN USB at boot time not recognized Thomas Herrmann
2004-09-14  6:26 ` Greg KH
2004-09-15 15:50 ` David Brownell [this message]
2004-09-22  7:48 ` Thomas Herrmann

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