My FreeRunner???s USB port still works for power, but not data?

[Matthias Apitz]

El día miércoles, marzo 03, 2010 a las 11:19:35 -0800, Brolin Empey escribió:

> Brolin Empey wrote:
> >Now my FreeRunner???s USB port works for power, so I can
> > still charge the battery, but not for communications, so I think a
> > solder connection must have come undone. I need to try disassembling my
> > FreeRunner to check the connections for the USB connector so I can ask
> > someone at work to fix (resolder) the connection, but I have not yet
> > done so. It must be a hardware problem because QtMoko can still charge,
> > but nothing happens when I connect USB devices to my FreeRunner: no
> > kernel modules are automatically loaded, there are no kernel messages.
> > Manually loading the kernel modules (e.g., dm9601 for my USB???Ethernet
> > adapter) for the USB device does not help. It is not because of the
> > electrical/logical USB host/device setting because I checked that; I
> > know how to use sysfs to change it.
> 
> Update:  I disassembled my FreeRunner;  everything looks OK.  I did not 
> try using a digital multimeter to test the continuity between the data 
> pins in the USB socket and the connections between the USB socket and 
> the PCB, though.  I noticed pin 4 (ID) of the 5-pin mini USB F connector 
> (socket) does not appear to contact pin 4 on the male connector (the 
> plug on the cable).  Is this normal?
> 
> I have fully reassembled my FreeRunner;  it still works, except for USB 
> data.  However, now I really think this is a hardware problem because 
> the behaviour is the same when my FreeRunner is running U-Boot from NOR, 
> U-Boot from NAND, or QtMoko from NAND.  When I connect my FreeRunner to 
> my Windows 7 laptop, Windows 7 displays a balloon notification saying 
> ???USB Device Not Recognized:  One of the USB devices attached to this 
> computer has malfunctioned, and Windows does not recognize it.???.  When I 
> connect my FreeRunner to a tower PC running Ubuntu v8.10 Desktop Edition 
> i386, Linux detects a new full-speed USB device, but does not 
> specifically detect a FreeRunner.  lsusb lists no connected devices. 
> This is normal because this PC is headless, but it should still list the 
> FreeRunner if Linux detects the FreeRunner specifically instead of 
> detecting only a generic full-speed USB device.

I have had the same problem some weeks ago and it was just
a broken USB cable (the one this comes with the FR), it works
with any other USB cable. 

HIH

	matthias


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