Bonjour, I have a very old Hewlett-Packard PC with Ubuntu 12.04. Recently my built-in usb ports have become very flaky so I have bought a new low profile PCI 4-port USB 2.0 hub (VIA Technologies, Inc.) which has failed to install. Immediately apparent is the !!!error notice. I have spent several hours in research with no success - I am obviously not doing it right! Odd, too, that lspci and lshw only enumerate 3 ports on this card, whereas there are 4. Any help gratefully received. Failing direct help, I should appreciate some pointers on how to start self-helping ... Ta! For example, I imagine it would be useful to understand the error message! I shall be glad to supply any further diagnostics - just tell me! I am not a stranger to programming, but my major interests have been DBs rather than hardware... PCI/VEN_1106&DEV_303A&REV_61 lsusb does not find these ports dmesg has no references to this card, that I can discover/recognise. lspci -vvv -s 01:01 01:01.0 Non-VGA unclassified device: VIA Technologies, Inc. Device 303a (rev 61) Subsystem: Accelgraphics Inc. Device 0003 !!! Invalid class 0000 for header type 02 Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- SERR- Latency: 22 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 0 Region 0: Memory at (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] Bus: primary=00, secondary=00, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0 Memory window 0: 00020000-0002fce1 [disabled] Memory window 1: 00020000-00020000 [disabled] I/O window 0: 00001104-00000003 [disabled] I/O window 1: 00000080-00000003 [disabled] BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR+ ISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- 16bInt- PostWrite- etc. from 'lshw' ... *-pci description: PCI bridge produit: 82801 PCI Bridge fabriquant: Intel Corporation identifiant matériel: 1e information bus: pci@0000:00:1e.0 version: 81 bits: 32 bits horloge: 33MHz fonctionnalités: pci normal_decode bus_master ressources: portE/S:d000(taille=4096) mémoire:ff800000-ff8fffff mémoire:e6a00000-e6afffff *-usb:0 NON-RÉCLAMÉ description: USB controller produit: VIA Technologies, Inc. fabriquant: VIA Technologies, Inc. identifiant matériel: 1 information bus: pci@0000:01:01.0 version: 61 bits: 32 bits horloge: 33MHz fonctionnalités: pm uhci bus_master cap_list configuration: latency=0 mingnt=2 *-usb:1 NON-RÉCLAMÉ description: USB controller produit: VIA Technologies, Inc. fabriquant: VIA Technologies, Inc. identifiant matériel: 1.1 information bus: pci@0000:01:01.1 version: 61 bits: 32 bits horloge: 33MHz fonctionnalités: pm uhci bus_master cap_list configuration: latency=0 mingnt=2 *-usb:2 NON-RÉCLAMÉ description: USB controller produit: VT6105/VT6106S [Rhine-III] fabriquant: VIA Technologies, Inc. identifiant matériel: 1.2 information bus: pci@0000:01:01.2 version: 63 bits: 32 bits horloge: 33MHz fonctionnalités: pm ehci bus_master cap_list configuration: latency=0 mingnt=2 ...��.n��������+%������w��{.n�����{���"�)��jg��������ݢj����G�������j:+v���w�m������w�������h�����٥