Re: USB 3.0 Hub Downgrading to 2.0 Speeds Automatically

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>> You did?  From where?  What specific model is this?  I didn't think that
>> USB 3.0 hubs were on the market just yet (yes, I have one I found in
>> Japan, but it doesn't really work all that well...)

Oh didn't see this part. This is where I got it. It runs a VIA chipset it seems

http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=103&cp_id=10307&cs_id=1030702&p_id=6976&seq=1&format=2

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Joshua Scoggins
<theoretically.x64@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Currently, I'm running 2.6.37. I don't have an issue compiling
> 2.6.38-rc3 actually.
>
> Josh
>
> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 02:36:49PM -0800, Joshua Scoggins wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Two months ago I purchased a USB 3.0 card for my computer and it
>>> worked amazingly well with Linux right out of the box.  I got
>>> tired of having to reach behind my computer to switch cables so I
>>> purchased a USB 3.0 hub last week
>>
>> You did?  From where?  What specific model is this?  I didn't think that
>> USB 3.0 hubs were on the market just yet (yes, I have one I found in
>> Japan, but it doesn't really work all that well...)
>>
>>> and while Linux detects the
>>> hub and knows its a SuperSpeed device it is automatically downgraded
>>> to USB 2.0 speeds.  I checked the dmesg
>>> log and it said the following:
>>>
>>> "usb 2-1: new SuperSpeed USB device using xhci_hcd and address 2"
>>> <more messages>
>>> "hub 2-1:1.0: config failed, can't read hub descriptor (err -22)"
>>>
>>> The interesting part is that the transfer rate of all three of my USB
>>> 3.0 HDD enclosures in this mode is about 30-40 megabytes per second.
>>> If I plug the device into the ports on the back of the computer
>>> directly I get 80-125 megabytes per second so I know it's an issue
>>> with the hub.
>>> I even double checked that I didn't get scammed using Kinfocenter and
>>> it said that it was a USB 3.0 hub with a VIA chipset with a USB 2.0
>>> hub
>>> subdevice.
>>>
>>> My question is am I doing something wrong or is this a bug?
>>
>> What kernel version are you using?  Can you try 2.6.38-rc3 to see if
>> your hub works with that release?
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> greg k-h
>>
>
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