USB hotplugging does not work on all machines anymore

[Markus Huber]

Ankush Grover wrote:

> first boot your machine and then plug your scanner or usb hd .Please
> see the logs (tail -f /var/log/messages) and see if there any errors
> in it.

Thank you for that advice. Plugging in the IDE-USB-disk it reads:

Mar 15 06:44:37 localhost kernel: usb 1-3: new high speed USB device 
using address 2
Mar 15 06:44:38 localhost pam_timestamp_check: pam_timestamp: `/' owner 
UID != 0Mar 15 06:44:42 localhost kernel: usb 1-3: control timeout on ep0out
Mar 15 06:44:43 localhost pam_timestamp_check: pam_timestamp: `/' owner 
UID != 0Mar 15 06:45:18 localhost last message repeated 7 times
Mar 15 06:46:23 localhost last message repeated 13 times

And after that it is at its end.

> There are some issues with usb devices please update the rpms like 
> kernel ,udev,usbdevices ,initscripts,ramdisk.

I am at the latest patchlevel of FC3, and I am not sure if I want to mix 
with packages from the developers' Rawhide.

> I hope after updating the problem will get resolved.

Me hoping too, but I fear, the new kernel developments do not like my 
motherboard or the hardware is broken.

The motherboard is an Abit SG-71, and the latest BIOS is from 2003. So I 
am running the latest BIOS, it does not seem that Abit is still 
supporting that piece of hardware.

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Regards
Markus