Ubuntu and Acer USB problem

[BLenderhedd]

Just installed Ubuntu 9,04 on an Acer Aspire 5100. Everything works very nicely, Install was easy. Just one problem. I cannot seem to get USB to detect anything. Tried w/ two diff flash drives ( a Kingston and a Corsair ) and get no LED on drive, no action on screen.

I can't say for certain that this is a LINUX only problem as when I was trying to get a WinXP reinstall to work, the Acer "official" USB drivers would cause total failure of touchpad and keyboard.

BTW USB functioned fine before hard drive failure forced a reinstall.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Boomslang]

Insert usb device, then get the output of "dmesg | tail" and "lsusb" - anything worthwhile?

 

[BLenderhedd]

Not sure what you are saying. I'm not familiar w/ Linux.

When I plug in to USB I get no reaction at all.

 

[eeyrjmr]

Not sure what you are saying. I'm not familiar w/ Linux.

When I plug in to USB I get no reaction at all.

Welcome to linux.
What Boomslang means is open up a terminal and run those commands

dmesg | tail

lsusb

and paste the output.

The reason terminal commands are referenced in forums for linux is because it is very easy to get the answer for a text-based medium (eg forums - you could probably do all this via a gui like: usbview which Ubuntu should install for you as well as GNOME's logviewer)

if no actual light is comming on as you say then I suspect it is the USB drivers (ohci_hcd, ehci_hcd or uhci_hcd) is ot being loaded since the light (device dependant) usually occurs once the OS has enumerated the USB device - no enumeration == no light