Neither card reader works today. (Linpus)

All worked fine last night, today no card works in either slot.
Any suggestions?

EDIT: As of today no USB drive works in any USB slot either. I read the Thunar help but nothing helped.

EDIT 2:
Works now. Didn't do a thing but restart the machine three times, the third time suddenly there they were, the cards and the usb drive. Man is this the buggiest machine/os ever.

EDIT 3:
Some hours later, turned the machine on to check my mail and no card reader works again. Right now I want to give this time-wasting device away.

 

Yeah - this always happens to Linux on Desktops...
And don't expect any help, because there are no error log files and that means - you don't know what exactly is going on.

 

The output of the terminal command dmesg could have been helpful in working out what went wrong, but you'll only get the output from the last boot there. If it happens again, open a terminal, type 'dmesg', and the cut & paste the results in as part of a forum message. This gives the log information which people can then use to give some help.

As far as zgstyle's comments are concerned, I've never had this happen on any Linux desktop, and I've just told you how to get to the log information you need: zgstyle appears to be talking through the wrong orifice.

 

Ok it's happenning again, neither card reader works. I've got a card in each slot right now, they've worked fine until today. Here's the result of dmesg:
[user@localhost ~]$ dmesg
Linux version 2.6.23.9lw ([email protected]) (gcc version 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33)) #105 SMP PREEMPT Fri Jun 27 18:56:59 EDT 2008
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001f376000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000001f376000 - 000000001f3bf000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 000000001f3bf000 - 000000001f46d000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000001f46d000 - 000000001f4bf000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000001f4bf000 - 000000001f4f0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000001f4f0000 - 000000001f4ff000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000001f4ff000 - 000000001f500000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000001f500000 - 0000000020000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fed14000 - 00000000fed1a000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fed1c000 - 00000000fed20000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fff00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
501MB LOWMEM available.
Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 128256) 0 entries of 256 used
Zone PFN ranges:
DMA 0 -> 4096
Normal 4096 -> 128256
HighMem 128256 -> 128256
Movable zone start PFN for each node
early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
0: 0 -> 128256
On node 0 totalpages: 128256
DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0
Normal zone: 970 pages used for memmap
Normal zone: 123190 pages, LIFO batch:31
HighMem zone: 0 pages used for memmap
Movable zone: 0 pages used for memmap
DMI 2.4 present.
ACPI: RSDP 000FE020, 0024 (r2 INTEL )
ACPI: XSDT 1F4FE120, 0064 (r1 INTEL Napa 1 1000013)
ACPI: FACP 1F4FC000, 00F4 (r4 INTEL Napa 1 MSFT 1000013)
ACPI: DSDT 1F4F2000, 5D05 (r1 INTEL Napa 1 MSFT 1000013)
ACPI: FACS 1F488000, 0040
ACPI: SSDT 1F4FD000, 04C4 (r2 PmRef CpuPm 3000 INTL 20051117)
ACPI: HPET 1F4FB000, 0038 (r1 INTEL Napa 1 MSFT 1000013)
ACPI: APIC 1F4FA000, 0068 (r2 INTEL Napa 1 MSFT 1000013)
ACPI: MCFG 1F4F9000, 003C (r1 INTEL Napa 1 MSFT 1000013)
ACPI: ASF! 1F4F8000, 00A5 (r32 INTEL Napa 1 MSFT 1000013)
ACPI: SLIC 1F4F1000, 0180 (r1 INTEL Napa 1 MSFT 1000013)
ACPI: BOOT 1F4F0000, 0028 (r1 INTEL Napa 1 MSFT 1000013)
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x408
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
Processor #0 7:12 APIC version 20
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x01] enabled)
Processor #1 7:12 APIC version 20
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high edge lint[0x1])
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x02] high edge lint[0x1])
ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x04] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 4, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level)
ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.
Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs
ACPI: HPET id: 0x8086a201 base: 0xfed00000
Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
Allocating PCI resources starting at 30000000 (gap: 20000000:c0000000)
swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 000000000009f000 - 00000000000a0000
swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 00000000000a0000 - 00000000000e0000
swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000
swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 000000001f376000 - 000000001f3bf000
swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 000000001f46d000 - 000000001f4bf000
swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 000000001f4f0000 - 000000001f4ff000
Built 1 zonelists in Zone order. Total pages: 127254
Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=linpus vga=0x311 splash=silent loglevel=1 console=tty1 quiet nolapic_timer
bootsplash: silent mode.
mapped APIC to ffffb000 (fee00000)
mapped IOAPIC to ffffa000 (fec00000)
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 8192 bytes)
Detected 1596.033 MHz processor.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
console [tty1] enabled
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Memory: 504104k/513024k available (1904k kernel code, 7516k reserved, 543k data, 188k init, 0k highmem)
virtual kernel memory layout:
fixmap : 0xfff9b000 - 0xfffff000 ( 400 kB)
pkmap : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000 (4096 kB)
vmalloc : 0xe0000000 - 0xff7fe000 ( 503 MB)
lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xdf500000 ( 501 MB)
.init : 0xc0369000 - 0xc0398000 ( 188 kB)
.data : 0xc02dc0d8 - 0xc0363fa4 ( 543 kB)
.text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc02dc0d8 (1904 kB)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
hpet0: at MMIO 0xfed00000, IRQs 2, 8, 0
hpet0: 3 64-bit timers, 14318180 Hz
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 3196.10 BogoMIPS (lpj=6392203)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfe9fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 0040c39d 00000000 00000001 00000000
monitor/mwait feature present.
using mwait in idle threads.
CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 24K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
CPU: After all inits, caps: bfe9fbff 00000000 00000000 00003940 0040c39d 00000000 00000001 00000000
Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
ACPI: Core revision 20070126
CPU0: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz stepping 02
SMP alternatives: switching to SMP code
Booting processor 1/1 eip 3000
Initializing CPU#1
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 3191.99 BogoMIPS (lpj=6383996)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfe9fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 0040c39d 00000000 00000001 00000000
monitor/mwait feature present.
CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 24K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
CPU: After all inits, caps: bfe9fbff 00000000 00000000 00003940 0040c39d 00000000 00000001 00000000
CPU1: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz stepping 02
Total of 2 processors activated (6388.09 BogoMIPS).
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
checking TSC synchronization [CPU#0 -> CPU#1]: passed.
Brought up 2 CPUs
PM: Fastpoweoff 1.0
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: Using MMCONFIG
Setting up standard PCI resources
ACPI: EC: Look up EC in DSDT
ACPI Error (evxfregn-0109): lawson ec 06
[20070126]
ACPI: EC: GPE = 0x17, I/O: command/status = 0x66, data = 0x62
ACPI Error (evxfregn-0109): lawson ec 06
[20070126]
ACPI: System BIOS is requesting _OSI(Linux)
ACPI: If "acpi_osi=Linux" works better,
Please send dmidecode to [email protected]
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)
ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: Lawson Test 3
ACPI: EC: GPE = 0x17, I/O: command/status = 0x66, data = 0x62
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
PCI quirk: region 0400-047f claimed by ICH6 ACPI/GPIO/TCO
PCI quirk: region 0500-053f claimed by ICH6 GPIO
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.P32_._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.EXP1._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.EXP2._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.EXP3._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.EXP4._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 *11 12)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 *11 12)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 *11 12)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 *11 12)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12) *0, disabled.
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
ACPI: bus type pnp registered
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 9 devices
ACPI: ACPI bus type pnp unregistered
SCSI subsystem initialized
libata version 2.21 loaded.
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
usbcore: registered new device driver usb
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
Clockevents: could not switch to one-shot mode:<6>Clockevents: could not switch to one-shot mode: lapic is not functional.
Could not switch to high resolution mode on CPU 1
lapic is not functional.
Could not switch to high resolution mode on CPU 0
pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0x200-0x20f has been reserved
pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0x164e-0x164f has been reserved
pnp: 00:01: iomem range 0xe0000000-0xefffffff could not be reserved
pnp: 00:01: iomem range 0xfed1c000-0xfed1ffff could not be reserved
pnp: 00:01: iomem range 0xfed14000-0xfed17fff could not be reserved
pnp: 00:01: iomem range 0xfed18000-0xfed18fff could not be reserved
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.0
IO window: 5000-5fff
MEM window: 37300000-383fffff
PREFETCH window: 30000000-30ffffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.1
IO window: 3000-4fff
MEM window: 36300000-372fffff
PREFETCH window: 31000000-320fffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.2
IO window: 2000-2fff
MEM window: 35200000-362fffff
PREFETCH window: 32100000-330fffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.3
IO window: 1000-1fff
MEM window: 34100000-351fffff
PREFETCH window: 33100000-340fffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0
IO window: disabled.
MEM window: disabled.
PREFETCH window: disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.0 to 64
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.1 -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.1 to 64
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.2[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.2 to 64
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.3[D] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.3 to 64
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1e.0 to 64
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 196608 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
TCP reno registered
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 102k freed
Simple Boot Flag value 0x5 read from CMOS RAM was invalid
Simple Boot Flag at 0x44 set to 0x1
Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler deadline registered (default)
Boot video device is 0000:00:02.0
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.0 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.0cie00]
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.0cie02]
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.0cie03]
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.1 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.1cie00]
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.1cie02]
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.1cie03]
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.2 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.2cie00]
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.2cie02]
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.2cie03]
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.3 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.3cie00]
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.3cie02]
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.3cie03]
vesafb: framebuffer at 0x20000000, mapped to 0xe0080000, using 2400k, total 7872k
vesafb: mode is 640x480x16, linelength=1280, pages=11
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: Truecolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6> silentjpeg size 43971 bytes,<6>...found (640x480, 43983 bytes, v3).
Console: switching 1 lawson
consoles lawson 0
Console: switching consoles 1-17 to colour frame buffer device 78x25
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
hpet_resources: 0xfed00000 is busy
Linux agpgart interface v0.102
agpgart: Detected an Intel 945GME Chipset.
agpgart: Detected 7932K stolen memory.
agpgart: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0x20000000
[drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:02.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:02.0 to 64
[drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20060119 on minor 0
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
loop: module loaded
ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: version 2.12
ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: MAP [ P0 P2 IDE IDE ]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.2 -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64
scsi0 : ata_piix
scsi1 : ata_piix
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x000101f0 ctl 0x000103f6 bmdma 0x000160a0 irq 14
ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x00010170 ctl 0x00010376 bmdma 0x000160a8 irq 15
ata2.00: ATA-5: SSDPAMM0008G1EA, Ver2.I0H, max UDMA/66
ata2.00: 15761088 sectors, multi 0: LBA
ata2.00: configured for UDMA/66
scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA SSDPAMM0008G1EA Ver2 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] 15761088 512-byte hardware sectors (8070 MB)
sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] 15761088 512-byte hardware sectors (8070 MB)
sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
sda: sda1 sda2
sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:KBC,PNP0f13:MOUE] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
i8042.c: Warning: Keylock active.
i8042.c: Detected active multiplexing controller, rev 1.1.
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
serio: i8042 AUX0 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX1 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX2 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX3 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.3 -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
TCP cubic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
NET: Registered protocol family 15
Starting balanced_irq
Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
TuxOnIce: No attempt was made to resume from any image that might exist.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 188k freed
Warning: unable to open an initial console.
Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 7.2, id: 0x1c0b1, caps: 0xd04771/0xa40000
input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio2/input/input0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: debug port 1
PCI: cache line size of 32 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 16, io mem 0x38544400
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input1
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
mtrr: no more MTRRs available
usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
usb 1-5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
ACPI: SSDT 1F380C90, 0239 (r2 PmRef Cpu0Ist 3000 INTL 20051117)
ACPI: SSDT 1F37FE10, 01C7 (r2 PmRef Cpu0Cst 3001 INTL 20051117)
ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2] C3[C3])
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports 8 throttling states)
ACPI: SSDT 1F380F10, 00D0 (r2 PmRef Cpu1Ist 3000 INTL 20051117)
ACPI: SSDT 1F37EF10, 0083 (r2 PmRef Cpu1Cst 3000 INTL 20051117)
ACPI: CPU1 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2] C3[C3])
ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports 8 throttling states)
input: Power Button (FF) as /devices/virtual/input/input2
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: AC Adapter [ACAD] (on-line)
input: Power Button (CM) as /devices/virtual/input/input3
ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
input: Lid Switch as /devices/virtual/input/input4
ACPI: Lid Switch [LID0]
input: Sleep Button (CM) as /devices/virtual/input/input5
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
input: Video Bus as /devices/virtual/input/input6
ACPI: Video Device [OVGA] (multi-head: yes rom: yes post: no)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery present)
r8101 Fast Ethernet driver 1.008.08-2-1-NAPI loaded
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:02:00.0 to 64
eth0: Identified chip type is 'RTL8102E'.
eth0: RTL8101E at 0xe02fe000, 00:1e:68:8f:34:7f, IRQ 17
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 16, io base 0x00006080
usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
ath_hal: 0.9.17.1 (AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.1 -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.1 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 17, io base 0x00006060
usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ath_dfs: Version 2.0.0
Copyright (c) 2005-2006 Atheros Communications, Inc. All Rights Reserved
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.2[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.2 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 18, io base 0x00006040
usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
wlan: 0.8.4.2 (Atheros/multi-bss)
intel_rng: FWH not detected
ath_rate_atheros: Version 2.0.1
Copyright (c) 2001-2004 Atheros Communications, Inc, All Rights Reserved
sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver
sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
Linux video capture interface: v2.00
ath_pci: 0.9.4.5 (Atheros/multi-bss)
ath_pci: Acer-5.3.2.13-2008-June-13
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:00.4[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:04:00.4 to 64
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:00.3[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:04:00.3 to 64
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.3[D] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.3 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: irq 19, io base 0x00006020
usb usb5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 5-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device Acer Crystal Eye webcam (064e:d101)
input: Acer Crystal Eye webcam as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-5/1-5:1.0/input/input7
usb 2-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
sdhci: SDHCI controller found at 0000:04:00.2 [197b:2381] (rev 0)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:00.2[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
sdhci:slot0: Unknown controller version (1). You may experience problems.
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:04:00.2 to 64
mmc0: SDHCI at 0x34100200 irq 19 DMA
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:00.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:03:00.0 to 64
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####################WLAN ID:001c ####################
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Setting ah_eepromDetach
usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
USB Video Class driver (SVN r215)
SAMSoft library init ...
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1b.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1b.0 to 64


ForteMedia SAM-Soft Library Loaded!

ALC INIT<6>usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
input: Logitech Trackball as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1:1.0/input/input8
input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech Trackball] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
mmc0: new SDHC card at address 0007
mmcblk0: mmc0:0007 SD8GB 7843840KiB
mmcblk0: p1
wifi0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
wifi0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
wifi0: mac 14.2 phy 7.0 radio 10.2
wifi0: Use hw queue 1 for WME_AC_BE traffic
wifi0: Use hw queue 0 for WME_AC_BK traffic
wifi0: Use hw queue 2 for WME_AC_VI traffic
wifi0: Use hw queue 3 for WME_AC_VO traffic
wifi0: Use hw queue 8 for CAB traffic
wifi0: Use hw queue 9 for beacons
wifi0: Atheros 5212: mem=0x35200000, irq=18
Marking TSC unstable due to: possible TSC halt in C2.
Time: hpet clocksource has been installed.
Clockevents: could not switch to one-shot mode: lapic is not functional.
Clockevents: could not switch to one-shot mode: lapic is not functional.
Could not switch to high resolution mode on CPU 1
Could not switch to high resolution mode on CPU 0
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
pciehp: HPC vendor_id 8086 device_id 27d0 ss_vid 0 ss_did 0
Load service driver hpdriver on pcie device 0000:00:1c.0cie02
pciehp: HPC vendor_id 8086 device_id 27d2 ss_vid 0 ss_did 0
pciehp: Device 0000:02:00.0 already exists at 2:0, cannot hot-add
pciehp: Cannot add device 0x2:0
Load service driver hpdriver on pcie device 0000:00:1c.1cie02
pciehp: HPC vendor_id 8086 device_id 27d4 ss_vid 0 ss_did 0
pciehp: Device 0000:03:00.0 already exists at 3:0, cannot hot-add
pciehp: Cannot add device 0x3:0
Load service driver hpdriver on pcie device 0000:00:1c.2cie02
pciehp: HPC vendor_id 8086 device_id 27d6 ss_vid 0 ss_did 0
pciehp: Device 0000:04:00.0 already exists at 4:0, cannot hot-add
pciehp: Cannot add device 0x4:0
Load service driver hpdriver on pcie device 0000:00:1c.3cie02
pciehp: PCI Express Hot Plug Controller Driver version: 0.4
aufs 20080505
PM: Fastpoweroff, default profile added
Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -140751162 ns)
wlan: mac acl policy registered
<ath_vap_create> sc_softled = 0
ath_vap_create: LED ON
ath_rf_event: LED OFF 1 (sc_ledon=0)
r8101: eth0: link up
ath_rf_event: LED OFF 1 (sc_ledon=0)
Adding 1052248k swap on /dev/sda2. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1052248k
Unable to query Synaptics hardware.
input: PS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio2/input/input9
pciehp: Card present on Slot(0001_0000)
program_fw_provided_values: Could not get hotplug parameters
program_fw_provided_values: Could not get hotplug parameters
program_fw_provided_values: Could not get hotplug parameters
program_fw_provided_values: Could not get hotplug parameters
sdhci: SDHCI controller found at 0000:01:00.2 [197b:2381] (rev 0)
PCI: Enabling device 0000:01:00.2 (0000 -> 0002)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.2[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
sdhci:slot0: Unknown controller version (1). You may experience problems.
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:01:00.2 to 64
mmc1: SDHCI at 0x37300100 irq 16 DMA
PCI: Enabling device 0000:01:00.3 (0000 -> 0002)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.3[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:01:00.3 to 64
PCI: Enabling device 0000:01:00.4 (0000 -> 0002)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.4[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:01:00.4 to 64
mmc1: new SDHC card at address 0007
mmcblk1: mmc1:0007 SD4GB 3993600KiB
mmcblk1: p1
[user@localhost ~]$

 

Right at the end of the dmesg there was this:

Code:

mmc1: new SDHC card at address 0007
mmcblk1: mmc1:0007 SD4GB 3993600KiB
mmcblk1: p1

That looks as though the system has logged a 4Gb SD card in one of the slots; I'm struggling a bit beyond here since I can't compare this with my own machine's output (not having it to hand).

What happens if you remove and then reinsert the SD card, then do dmesg again? The last dozen or so lines should refer to SDHC changes; could you post those?

Anyone else know any more than I do at this point?

 

Thanks for your help!
If it helps any (probably not...) the card readers work roughly one out of three times.

Yes there was a 4Gb SDS in the right side. In the memory expansion is an 8Gb.
Just started up and both slots are working. As you requested here's the few lines of dmesg:

Load service driver hpdriver on pcie device 0000:00:1c.3cie02
pciehp: PCI Express Hot Plug Controller Driver version: 0.4
PM: Fastpoweroff, default profile added
Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -170244396 ns)
aufs 20080505
wlan: mac acl policy registered
<ath_vap_create> sc_softled = 0
ath_vap_create: LED ON
fuse init (API version 7.8)
aufs test_add:377:mount[2680]: uid/gid/perm /tmp/posixdir 500/0/0755, 500/500/0755
aufs test_add:377:mount[3025]: uid/gid/perm /tmp/posixdir 500/0/0755, 500/500/0755
ath_rf_event: LED OFF 1 (sc_ledon=0)
r8101: eth0: link up
ath_rf_event: LED OFF 1 (sc_ledon=0)
Adding 1052248k swap on /dev/sda2. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1052248k

 

I might have another clue for you:

It MIGHT be related to the fact that "Allow xfce to Manage Desktop" in the Desktop Setting always gets unchecked as soon as I use any keyboard shortcut. (I posted this on another section of the forum but so far nobody else seems to have this problem.) If I re-check that checkbox before shutting down, the next time I start up the card readers work. (every time so far!)

So I just have to find out why using any keyboard shortcut somehow un-checks that box. It only happens with Linpus. I had Ubuntu Hardy (with which I'm comfortable) installed for a while and never had such problems. The only reason I went back to Linpus was because I couldn't get the wifi to work in Ubuntu, despite the various how-to's all over the web. I really need the wifi because I'd going on a long tour in October and have to be able to email etc from various places on the road.

 

Could be a corrupted /etc/mtab file...

try sudo
"rm -r /etc/mtab*"

These files should be regenerated when you reboot... But just in case, you can make a backup

"sudo cp /etc/mtab* /some/other/directory"

 

Thanks annafil, that didn't change anything.
Also, after about five or six tries each way (see my previous post about kb shortcut weirdness) the card readers seem to work randomly once out of every three or four re-starts. Almost as bad as the network, which works maybe every other time.

I can NOT wait until Onelinux or Intrepid (if the wifi really works). I've wasted so many days/nights just trying to make it "work" with Linpus.

 

You know I've never come across this problem before, and reoccuring so often to boot. It doesn't sound like something is wrong with Linpus (or more people would have the issue, right?) it sounds like something on your side could have gotten corrupted - like a config file somewhere.. have you tried a clean reinstall of Linpus yet?

It can't be hardware failing because the SD cards and the USB are not really connectors on the mobo.

 

One question (admittedly grasping at straws here!): one difference between your dmesg output and mine was that yours seemed to bring up the ethernet connection differently from mine - I can't recall the details without getting to my machine, which isn't with me just at this moment, but there was more output from yours - possibly it was connected to a wired network at the time. Is this the case, and is the card problem in any way related to whether or not you're on a wired network?

I can't see *why* it would matter, but ethernet does show in dmesg immediately before some of the usb subsystem kicks in....

 

Hi annafil,
Yes this is easily the third or fourth clean linpus install. I started out with it, had so many problems I installed Ubuntu, which makes my One like a completely different machine, totally solid and reliable instead of one random problem after another. I'd have stuck with it except for the wifi not working. I haven't got a choice for the next month but to stick with this hideous random Linpus, and once my trip is finished in late October give Intrepid or OneLinux a try when they come out. I'm already totally used to restarting two or three times every time, one of the three will usually end up with both the network AND the sd slots working

 

Yes I've been connected to a wired network all day today. I'm just going to bed now, tomorrow I'll try starting up a few times with the ethernet connection and tell you if it's the same.

Thanks a lot for your help everyone.

BD

 

Started up several times today so far without having the ethernet plugged it. No change: I'd say just about 75% of the time the card readers don't work. When the card readers don't work it also doesn't see any USB memory sticks if I put one in any USB port, though if I plug in a USB mouse, that always works.

 

This morning I flashed the bios 3304, and so far every time starting up the card readers work. That's maybe 5 or 6 startups, all good, a new record! So I'm getting a bit of confidence that perhaps the problem was fixed with the new bios. I'll let you know in a few days.

 

Update:
After a day of successful startups for the first time since I bought the thing some weeks ago, I started it up tonight, it wouldn't boot, and got a message about "Unable to start X server...." I spent hours trying to figure it out (the normal situation for this machine) and can't. I don't have time to be a programmer. I just want to have a little computer I can USE, not spend all my time trying to fix. For me this machine has been the biggest time waster I've ever made the mistake of buying. Giving it away to the first person I know who wants it.

My thanks to those who helped out here, good luck!!!

BD

 

If you're serious about giving it away, PM me and I'll send you my address!

 

I gave it the son of the guy at the local computer shop, he's into programming and loves to spend all day typing code.

 

Too bad you didn't keep it. Wifi works fine in Ubuntu with the latest 2.6.27 kernels. I think Intrepid alpha 6 uses such a kernel; the Fedora 10 beta will also when it comes out.

 

In a way I felt sorry for it, it was like a dysfunctional little puppy that I really wanted to love but it kept biting me or pissing on my stuff