From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh@xs4all.nl>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: USB extension (repeater) cable
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 23:18:05 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45B313AD.7080705@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070120000158.GD12615@kroah.com>
Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 04:40:34PM +0100, Udo van den Heuvel wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I just tried my shiny new usb extension cable (repeater):
>>
>> Jan 19 16:01:17 epia kernel: usb 5-1: new high speed USB device using
>> ehci_hcd and address 60
>> Jan 19 16:01:17 epia kernel: usb 5-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
>> Jan 19 16:01:17 epia kernel: hub 5-1:1.0: USB hub found
>> Jan 19 16:01:17 epia kernel: hub 5-1:1.0: 4 ports detected
>> Jan 19 16:01:18 epia kernel: hub 5-1:1.0: Cannot enable port 1. Maybe
>> the USB cable is bad?
>> Jan 19 16:01:22 epia last message repeated 3 times
>> Jan 19 16:01:23 epia kernel: hub 5-1:1.0: Cannot enable port 2. Maybe
>> the USB cable is bad?
>> Jan 19 16:01:26 epia last message repeated 3 times
>> Jan 19 16:01:27 epia kernel: hub 5-1:1.0: Cannot enable port 3. Maybe
>> the USB cable is bad?
>> Jan 19 16:01:31 epia last message repeated 3 times
>>
>> The second cable does the same.
>> Of course we have just one port on this hub...
>> Any ideas?
>
> Perhaps the kernel is not lying and this cable really is bad? :)
>
> Your hardware can not handle this device, there really is nothing that
> the kernel can do about this.
>
> USB extension cables are horrible things, and usually violate the USB
> spec and do not always work, as you are finding out. Sorry about that.
>
Actually, what it looks like is even simpler. The extension cable
contains a four-port hub chip (which is the most common commodity chip)
and haven't bothered changing the descriptor to tell the computer only
one port is actually active. So only one port can be activated, and the
others are stubbed out in some evil way. In that case, it should be
noisy but harmless.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-21 7:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-19 15:40 USB extension (repeater) cable Udo van den Heuvel
2007-01-20 0:01 ` Greg KH
2007-01-21 7:18 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-01-21 7:20 ` Udo van den Heuvel
2007-01-21 7:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-01-21 23:08 ` Sven-Haegar Koch
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