On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 8:25 AM, <jonas.narst...@gmail.com> wrote: > lördagen den 13 augusti 2011 07.54.37 skrev Michael Mol: >> On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 6:23 AM, <jonas.narst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > I have an ASUS USB-BT211 bluetooth dongle, I have never been able to make > it >> > work and it causes udev to fail at startup and sending the following msg > to >> > the syslog: >> > >> > 2011-08-13T09:45:30+02:00 poff udevd[5235]: timeout 'usb_id --export >> > /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:12.0/usb3' >> > >> > This seems to be related to usb3, however, neither the mobo (ASUS M4A79XTD >> > EVO) nor the the installed kernel has usb3 support; if related to usb3 is >> > expected. > > *... if related to usb3 faiure is expected. > >> > >> > Acording to the ASUS website the bluetooth dongle should work with usb2. >> > >> > Is there a way to disable usb3 in udev and force it to use usb2 for the >> > device? >> >> You can find udev's action rules under /etc/udev/ ... Maybe you'll >> find what you need there. >> >> Note that most motherboards don't make every port USB3. In fact, I >> haven't yet seen one yet that does. If you look next to the port, you >> may see the text 'USB3'...try plugging your dongle into a different >> port from that one. >> >> The other thing you might do is disable USB3 in your kernel >> configuration or BIOS. (Enable UHCI and EHCI, disable XHCI). Make sure >> you have a PS/2 keyboard on hand, just in case. >> >> On the other hand, it could just be that your dongle doesn't work; >> that error sounds suspiciously like a misbehaving USB device. Try it >> in a different system. >> >> > > Since there are no usb3 ports on the motherboard I do not think changing ports > will work
Yeah, I misinterpreted sysfs. I'd suspected (as victor pointed out) that 'usb3' in your sysfs path just referred to "which" port, so I'd done a "find /sys|grep usb". But then I misread the result. And your email, apparently. :-| -- :wq
