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darkenergy

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Registered: 2008-09-12

Posts: 10

Arch boot freezes, new USB2.0 card, old computer.

I'm running Arch on an old AOpen AX6BC (Intel 440BX chip set).
The onboard USB is 1.1 and I wanted something faster so I bought a Wintech USB2.0 interface card.
This is based on the VIA VT6212L.

Now, depending on which PCI slot the USB interface is sitting in, one of two things will happen:

1) The Card doesn't get recognized by Arch  ("lsusb" only shows the onboard USB)

or

2) Arch sees the card, and "freezes" on boot after reporting the details of the card. See the screen shot.

Has anyone else experienced this type of problem on an older computer?

MoonSwan

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From: Great White North

Registered: 2008-01-23

Posts: 881

Re: Arch boot freezes, new USB2.0 card, old computer.

Have a look at the live CD/DVD's grub line.  There is a part of it that has a delay specifically set for usb devices.  Increase the time (default is 5s) to say 10s or 15s.  See if that works and if not, look at the wiki to find various boot code options one can use to perhaps get your hardware working.  IE irqpoll or nomsi

hpestilence

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Registered: 2005-06-20

Posts: 67

Re: Arch boot freezes, new USB2.0 card, old computer.

The specs from the Wintech site says it's PCI Spec 2.2 compliant which might have problems with Slot 1 motherboards.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/214004-28-interface