[ale] automatic updates = confused user

[brobinso at math.usf.edu]

Hello.  I asked a very similar question here about 3-4 months ago.  Never 
got an answer, but I think I solved it by doing an

# rmmod ehci-hcd

the ehci-hcd  module is the one that controls the usb 2.0, so you get the 
higher speed usb.  without it, you get lower speed (though I havn't 
noticed a diff), but it works.

I guess this becomes a problem when the usb device deteriorates, is cheap, 
the wires get old, etc.

Here's my discussion of it on ubuntu forums:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=660971

hope this helps.

Robert

> Before I went off to Thailand for my son's wedding, when I
> plugged a USB storage device into the computer, the automounter
> bits and pieces more or less worked.  I could mount the device
> and access the files.
> Come back from Thailand and plug in the card reader (with card)
> and -- nothing.
> the only log entry is this:
>
> kernel: usb 5-2.4: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
>
> I sure could use a clue on how to mount this thing so I can get to work
> on all of the wedding pictures.
>
> This is a FC 4 system and a recent update obviously has -- ahem -- changed
> some things.  Before things changed the log message would tell me that the
> system saw the USB device as /dev/sdb1 or sdb2, or whatever.
> Now I have no clue.
>
> Sean
>
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