Re: USB ports frequently disconnecting

2021-09-27 Thread Roger Heflin
it could be the usb ports are not seating quite as well as they did originally. After numerous usage, some of the ports I have are getting loose and somewhat flakey with minimal movement. On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 11:13 AM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Mon, 2021-09-27 at 09:55 -0500, Roger H

Re: USB ports frequently disconnecting

2021-09-27 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 27 Sep 2021 17:12:48 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Might be time to look at a new mobo in any case. I know I have one old computer where all the USB3 ports are mostly dead (work a little, then screw up a lot). The USB2 ports still work fine, so different bits of hardware can start t

Re: USB ports frequently disconnecting

2021-09-27 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2021-09-27 at 09:55 -0500, Roger Heflin wrote: > If it is a laptop, I have had several laptops (one running linux and > one running windows) where some of the USB hardware died after 3-5 > years.  I suspect that the cooling design for the usb devices was not > great and they cooked.  I did

Re: USB ports frequently disconnecting

2021-09-27 Thread Roger Heflin
If it is a laptop, I have had several laptops (one running linux and one running windows) where some of the USB hardware died after 3-5 years. I suspect that the cooling design for the usb devices was not great and they cooked. I did start using an extra laptop cooling fan and that seemed to help

USB ports frequently disconnecting

2021-09-27 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
I have a whole slew of these messages in the journal: 00:00:11 Bree upowerd[2067]: treating change event as add on /sys/devices/pci:00/:00:14.0/usb3/3-0:1.0 The specific usb hub changes from time to time, i.e. it's not always the same device, (and doesn't seem to be related to my externa