Problem with a USB PCMCIA card

[Dominik Brodowski]

Hi,

On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 06:31:51PM +0100, François wrote:
> I have bought a USB PCMCIA card that adds 2 usb ports to my notebook. 
> This card is well recognized by the kernel. The problem is that the only 
> device I have managed to use with this card is a USB Key. All my other 
> devices (a printer or a mouse) aren't detected when I plug these. The 
> appropriate kernel modules (usblp or usbhid) are well compiled and 
> present on my system but when I plug these devices on the card, nothing 
> happens. Off course, the printer or the mouse is correctly detected if I 
> plug it on the USB ports of my notebook.
> 
> I add that I use UDEV, gentoo and kernel 2.6.19. I have also installed 
> the pcmciautils package.
> 
> Does anybody knows how to solve the problem ?
> Thanks in advance for your help,

Might be a problem with the power supply of the USB devices. dmesg output
and lsusb output might help to determine the cause.

	Dominik