[ale] Linux 3.0.0 USB issues

[Jeff Hubbs]

I'm all for this...especially the escape-to-Gentoo part.  It's good to 
have a mindset where your kernel version is not tied to your distro 
version (Gentoo is versionless).

On 3/30/12 12:01 PM, mike at trausch.us wrote:
> On 03/30/2012 09:10 AM, Chris Fowler wrote:
>> I've been running Ubuntu 11.10 for a few weeks and am taking of dropping
>> down to 11.04 LTS.  I've been experiencing USB enumeration issues for
>> EHCI.  Normally not a problem, but I need my flash drives and disks to
>> run at the fastest speed possible.  I've googled this and it seems as if
>> this is an issue in 3.0.   As anyone else found a workaround?
> Simply upgrade your kernel to 3.1 or 3.2 if you are having issues with 3.0.
>
> Even though you are running a binary distribution, unless you _rely_ on
> something in the kernel binary that the distribution provides, you can
> easily compile your own vanilla kernel on an Ubuntu system.  I used to
> do it all the time, before I started using Gentoo, because of various
> deficiencies in the Ubuntu kernel.
>
> Seriously, that's the workaround.
>
> If you need features from their custom kernel, check out their git
> source trees, which bring the kernel up-to-date with the Ubuntu set of
> patches in their own lands.
>
> 	--- Mike
>
>
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