ghost of a USB hub
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 00:29:44 -0600, Marshall Lake It's probably the CPU fan. XP...
I have a 4 year old Sony VAIO tower with two built in USB ports. I recently hooked up a very cheap Chinese 4 port USB hub into one of the ports. My zip drive quit working, even when I had didn't have it using the hub, until I took the hub out of the system and rebooted.
I wish I could remember the hub's brand name so I could warn you all not to buy that brand, but I threw away the package and it doesn't say on the device.
What's weird is usbview still sees the thing. Here's what usbview says:
- USB UHCI Root Hub * Photosmart 7400 series * General Purpose USB Hub
(The Photosmart is my HP printer).
The thing is, I only have the printer plugged into the box. The "General Purpose USB Hub" is no longer plugged in. Perhaps it is part of what came with the tower, but that doesn't make any sense - why have 2 hubs to drive only 2 ports?
So I seem to have the "ghost of a hub" on my linux. I am having weird printer problems (see previous post) that might possibly be due to this. When I click "configure" on usbview, a box comes up saying
Location of usbdevfs devices fileproc-bus-usb-devices
and looking at that file
No, both the K and S scripts are called when you enter. When you leave you...
$ ls -lproc-bus-usb-devices -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 2005-02-21 14:20 proc-bus-usb-devices
it's a 0 length file! So I don't see how I could edit the file to remove the reference to the ghost hub.
Any idea how I can get rid of this ghost?
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