I thought I had installed hotplug, but apparently I forgot. After installing it the uhci driver loads. However, still no midi. After stopping alsa and then hotplug and then starting hotplug and alsa via init scripts I see this in /var/log/messages: box1:~# grep "\(usb\|uhci\)" /var/log/messages ..... Jul 31 16:30:57 box1 kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs Jul 31 16:30:57 box1 kernel: usb.c: registered new driver hub Jul 31 16:30:57 box1 kernel: uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1 Jul 31 16:30:57 bJul 31 16:35:14 box1 kernel: usb.c: USB disconnect on device 2 Jul 31 16:30:57 box1 kernel: usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 Jul 31 16:30:58 box1 kernel: usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x1235/0x4661) is not claimed by any active driver. Jul 31 16:31:01 box1 usb.agent: ... no modules for USB product 1235/4661/101 Jul 31 16:31:06 box1 kernel: usb.c: registered new driver snd-usb-audio turning the remote 25 off and back on yields this: Jul 31 16:35:14 box1 kernel: usb.c: USB disconnect on device 2 Jul 31 16:35:27 box1 kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1, assigned device number 3 Jul 31 16:35:27 box1 kernel: usb.c: USB device 3 (vend/prod 0x1235/0x4661) is not claimed by any active driver. Jul 31 16:35:30 box1 usb.agent: ... no modules for USB product 1235/4661/101 aconnect doesn't show anything either: box1:~# aconnect -i client 0: 'System' [type=kernel] 0 'Timer ' 1 'Announce ' box1:~# aconnect -o But, at least it shows up on the USB bus now: box1:~# lsusb Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 001 Device 003: ID 1235:4661 box1:~# cat /proc/bus/usb/devices T: Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 2 B: Alloc= 0/900 us ( 0%), #Int= 0, #Iso= 0 D: Ver= 1.00 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 0.00 S: Product=USB UHCI-alt Root Hub S: SerialNumber=6400 C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr= 0mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=255ms T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 3 Spd=12 MxCh= 0 D: Ver= 1.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=1235 ProdID=4661 Rev= 1.01 S: Manufacturer=Novation EMS S: Product=ReMOTE25 V1.0 C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=20 MxPwr=250mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=(none) E: Ad=83(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 32 Ivl=1ms E: Ad=03(O) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 32 Ivl=1ms box1:~# cat /proc/bus/usb/drivers usbdevfs hub snd-usb-audio Is there any other info I could provide that might help? Steve mentioned that i might need the snd-usb-midi driver instead, but if i remember correctly it was merged into the snd-usb-audio driver a while back. Is that true? Are there some options I'm supposed to pass to snd-usb-audio via modules.conf? I've read about special case quirks being added for specific usb devices, but haven't understood what they are... Could that be possible with the remote 25? Thanks for your help, Eric Rz. Clemens Ladisch wrote: > > Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: > > lsusb returns nothing and there is nothing in /proc/bus/usb/devices ( > > which I guess says the same thing. ) > > ... > > lsmod looks like this: > > > > Module Size Used by Not tainted > > input 3296 0 (autoclean) > > usbcore 55968 0 [snd-usb-audio] > > snd-... ... > > The USB host controller driver (uhci or usb-uhci) isn't loaded. > (This should be done automatically by one of your startup scripts.) > > HTH > Clemens