Honey I blew up the USB ports
Ed Greshko
Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Wed Dec 20 22:12:33 UTC 2006
Joe Smith wrote:
> I plugged my USB memory stick in the other night, and instantly froze my
> FC5 system. I mean bang--dead.
>
> The reboot went fine, journals all recovered fine (Nice!), but the
> system no longer responds to any device plugged in. No kernel messages
> at all. The stick still works in other computers, and the ports still
> don't work if I reboot into that other OS, so it sure looks like my USB
> ports are gone.
>
> All the kernel messages on bootup look ok, same as usual, no errors.
>
> Anyone else have this happen?
No, but where do you live? You don't happen to live in an cold, arid area
where you walk around with a set of keys and use them to touch door knobs
during the winter months to keep from getting shocked all the time?
> Anything else I might try?
Run lspci and see if the "USB Controller" is listed.
> Anything I should look for when buying an add-on card?
>
> <Joe
>
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