FedoraForum USB thread

[karlp at ourldsfamily.com]

I posted the following thread at fedoraforum.org and have seen no response. Do
any of you folks know where to point me?

USB Fails on FC6 after update of?

There are some old threads on this, but they give an fdi solution that doesn't
apply here, so I'm lost. Here's the deal:

To start, on my system currently I have no USB devices installed other than a
USB mouse. I have SATA drives at sda and sdb, so the first USB device plugged
in comes up as sdc[1]. This only affects my work desktop. My laptop and home
desktop both run FC6 with regular updates and they work fine.

The automount never happens because the USB device isn't accepted when
inserted. This started happening after I updated my PC from FC6 default respin
from FedoraUnity.org 20070111. In other words, it worked fine after upgradeing
from FC5 to FC6, but after a few days, quit working. Because of this, I can't
sync my handheld, or use it as a memory stick, or use any memory sticks/flash
drives, or an external USB hard disk or floppy drive.

Here's what I get in /var/log/messages when I plug in any USB device, other
than my mouse, which works fine. Hmmm.. It's a 'low speed device':

Feb 27 15:43:19 lehi kernel: usb 4-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd
and address 39
Feb 27 15:43:19 lehi kernel: usb 4-6: device descriptor read/64, error -32
Feb 27 15:43:20 lehi kernel: usb 4-6: device descriptor read/64, error -32
Feb 27 15:43:20 lehi kernel: usb 4-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd
and address 40
Feb 27 15:43:20 lehi kernel: usb 4-6: device descriptor read/64, error -32
Feb 27 15:43:21 lehi kernel: hub 4-0:1.0: Cannot enable port 6. Maybe the USB
cable is bad?
Feb 27 15:43:21 lehi kernel: usb 4-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd
and address 41
Feb 27 15:43:21 lehi kernel: usb 4-6: device not accepting address 41, error -32
Feb 27 15:43:21 lehi kernel: usb 4-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd
and address 42
Feb 27 15:43:22 lehi kernel: usb 4-6: device not accepting address 42, error -32

I'm not sure where to look as the fdi issues discussed in other threads don't
apply. I've never put gpartd, or any other partition manipulation software on
this desktop PC and the fdi files don't exist that others removed to get
things working again.

TIA,
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