Hi. On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 12:08 -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > > Hi Alan. > > > I'd love to be able to help you. My lappy loads ehci and lsusb shows the > > controller, but I'll be darned if I can find the socket! I have other > > things to get done right now, but if no-one beats me to it, I'll try the > > desktop I have - I think that has ehci somewhere. > > Thanks, Nigel. You mean your laptop has an EHCI controller but no USB > ports? That's odd... Yeah. I have three USB ports on it, but two of them seem to be connected to one controller (going by lsusb after plugging my Palm into each of them). > Anyway, here are instructions for you or anyone else who can do the test. > (I forgot to include them in the original message.) Running the test > involves two steps. > > The first step is to check that an unpatched system supports Wake-on-USB. > This means enabling it in the BIOS and/or in ACPI (whatever that might > entail; I have no idea what's needed) and actually trying it out. Either > plugging or unplugging a USB device while the system is in STD should wake > the machine up. > > The second step is to see whether Wake-on-USB continues to work after > applying the patch mentioned previously. That's the real question. > > It may turn out that _nobody_ has Wake-on-USB working at all... in which > case we'd have a different problem to solve. Thanks! Nigel
