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grine

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Registered: 2010-02-09

Posts: 38

USB Sharing switch

I'm using a USB sharing switch to choose which computer gets the input from my mouse/keyboard. They are connected to a hub which is connected through the switch to my desktop and laptop.

I recently got a new, smaller and simpler hub, without fancy auto-detectino and such, which always seemed to mess up, but if I connect the new one, it breaks something in linux and the input devices don't respond anymore. If I have only one of the computer->switch cables connected it works, but if I connect the other one I get:

[ 1005.402688] usb 1-1.5.1: new full-speed USB device number 12 using ehci_hcd
[ 1005.482375] usb 1-1.5.1: device descriptor read/64, error -32
[ 1005.665232] usb 1-1.5.1: device descriptor read/64, error -32
[ 1005.848229] usb 1-1.5.1: new full-speed USB device number 13 using ehci_hcd
[ 1005.928006] usb 1-1.5.1: device descriptor read/64, error -32
[ 1006.111115] usb 1-1.5.1: device descriptor read/64, error -32
[ 1006.293935] usb 1-1.5.1: new full-speed USB device number 14 using ehci_hcd
[ 1006.699269] usb 1-1.5.1: device not accepting address 14, error -32
[ 1006.779412] usb 1-1.5.1: new full-speed USB device number 15 using ehci_hcd
[ 1007.184921] usb 1-1.5.1: device not accepting address 15, error -32
[ 1007.185177] hub 1-1.5:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1

in dmesg and no response. unloading and reloading the usbmodules and reconnecting (with only 1 computer->hub cable connected) makes it work again.

Anyone noticed anythin similar and have any ideas?