[buug] Hardware heartburn

[Bill Honeycutt]

Nothing is plugged in but thin air!  I'm taking yours and Patrick's 
advice and disabling the little begger.


Bob Read wrote:

> Just curious Bill, but is anything plugged into the
> USB port?  If you plugin something else, does that
> work?  Is there another USB port you can plug into
> instead (ie is it the device, the cable, or the USB
> port ? )  
> 
> If nothing is plugged in to the USB port, and you
> don't plan on using the USB port, you could disable
> all the USB/PCI stuff to allow the kernel to boot.
> 
> Later,
> Bob
> 
> --- Bill Honeycutt <wfhoney at pacbell.net> wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>I realize that BUUG isn't an appropriate forum for
>>the question I need 
>>to ask, but maybe someone can point me in the right
>>direction.
>>
>>Today, out of the blue, I got the following in
>>messages:
>>
>>    kernel: usb-ohci.c: OHCI Unrecoverable Error,
>>controller usb-00:0f.2 
>>disabled
>>
>>...after which the server quit responding and a
>>number of bleary eyed 
>>programmers started wandering up to my desk.
>>
>>I snooped around with lspci -v and found out this:
>>
>>00:0f.2 USB Controller: Compaq Computer Corporation
>>ZFMicro Chipset USB 
>>(rev 12) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
>>         Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation
>>ZFMicro Chipset USB
>>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency
>>64, IRQ 25
>>         Memory at db800000 (32-bit,
>>non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
>>         Capabilities: [e0] Power Management version
>>1
>>
>>This was a second hand machine, always somewhat
>>suspect, but it does a 
>>fairly decent job, doesn't need to be 24x7, so I
>>keep it alive.
>>
>>Could I be looking at signs of a flakey controller
>>chip?  Could someone 
>>have done something stupid and triggered this
>>message?
>>
>>Any words of wisdom, speculation or even wisecracks
>>would be appreciated.
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> 
> 
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