Linux USB boot hang

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2001-07-14 19:15 UTC #0 lore raw

Hello,

I compiled and installed Linux-2.4.5smp on a dual 300 MHz Pentium II running Red Hat 7.0 with gcc 2.96. The motherboard has two sets of USB headers but there are no USB ports. If I configure the kernel with USB modules, at boot linux complains repeatedly:

hub.c: Cannot enable port 1 of hub 1, disabling port. hub.c: Maybe USB cable is bad?
hub.c: Cannot enable port 2 of hub 1, disabling port. hub.c: Maybe USB cable is bad?

I don't know how to get out of this, so I just wait for it to time out
to finish booting. If I don't configure the kernel for a USB controller then the during the boot process it complains that it can't find the usb-uhci module and the boot process hangs at sendmail. Again I wait for the time-out for the boot process to finish. How do I fix this dilemma. Is there some way I can modifiy hub.c to stop looking for ports 1 and 2?

Thanks, from a Linux newbie.

Don Werder
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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams

2001-07-15 02:07 UTC #1 lore raw

Quoted 19 lines · On Sat, 14 Jul 2001 [email protected] wrote:

Hello,
I compiled and installed Linux-2.4.5smp on a dual 300 MHz Pentium II running Red Hat 7.0 with gcc 2.96. The motherboard has two sets of USB headers but there are no USB ports. If I configure the kernel with USB modules, at boot linux complains repeatedly:
hub.c: Cannot enable port 1 of hub 1, disabling port. hub.c: Maybe USB cable is bad?
hub.c: Cannot enable port 2 of hub 1, disabling port. hub.c: Maybe USB cable is bad?
I don't know how to get out of this, so I just wait for it to time out
to finish booting. If I don't configure the kernel for a USB controller then the during the boot process it complains that it can't find the usb-uhci module and the boot process hangs at sendmail. Again I wait for the time-out for the boot process to finish. How do I fix this dilemma. Is there some way I can modifiy hub.c to stop looking for ports 1 and 2?

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Thanks, from a Linux newbie.
Don Werder
[email protected]

Add "append=nousb" to lilo.conf. RH looks for this and skips loading the USB module if it exists.

It's not hanging at sendmail; it just can't find the IP address for your machine.

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