[plug] USB disappeared under 2.6

[Adam Ashley]

On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 13:06 +0800, Bernd Felsche wrote:
> A little while ago, I had a USB camera hooked up to a computer
> running a 2.6 kernel under SuSE 9.1 and it worked out of the box.
> 
> Now the system is failing to recognize any plugged-in USB devices at
> all.  There've been a number of changes in the interim...
> significantly (afaict) kernel version incremented from 2.6.4 to
> 2.6.5 "automagically" through SuSE's online patch system.
> 
> I've also changed the boot parameters to try some different
> elevators for the "standard" but reverting doesn't make the USB come
> good again.
> 
> Chipset is nVidia nforce on an ASUS A7N8X-VM mainboard... which
> could well be the problem. 
> 
> I've probably Googled too much on the problem so far to come up with
> a solution.
> 
> Anything else I can try?
> 

I've had similar problems with usb after 2.6.5. I found building all the
USB except the Host stuff as modules and then not plugging anything in
until after hotplug starts. If the device is plugged in during boot or
before hotplug starts its not recognised. Of course this is on a laptop
so its feasable, the ports are easily reached.

Adam