[wellylug] Unexplained (so far) incompatibility of USB card reader and Linux PC

[jumbophut]

On 10/3/05, Jethro Carr wrote:
> When plugged into anyone else's system, the device worked. When we tried
> it on mine, the device was detected, and we could also see it with
> 'fdisk -l'.
>
> On Donald's machine this command showed nothing, which is strange, as
> this command doesn't depend on device nodes existing from my knowledge.

I have a sneaking suspicion it could be a USB-controller problem.  I
had machine which was loading the uhci usb driver when it should have
been loading ohci.  When I finally configured it to load ohci, there
was a subtle driver bug which stopped it recognising a particular USB
key.  The key worked fine on other machines, which all had
uhci-compatible cards.

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