Greetings folks; I have an Aluratek Libre e-book reader that laid around for about 10 months, so the battery is obviously dead, but if plugged into a powered usb port, it will charge in about 8 hours. I tried its own charger, but that appears to be dead, no output power when plugged into a device expecting a std usb cable with the 6 pin ultra-mini-d style, I have a card reader that lights up the whole room when a usb cable is plugged in, 2 such cables work, but this little switch-mode wall wart doesn't light it. It has been plugged into a powered hub using its own supplied USB cable for about 2 hours now with no effect. It is completely dead. Tailing the log does not see it being plugged in or unplugged as one would assume when the device is turned off. However, the screen is supposed to show a charging battery icon even then, but is not, which also tells me the log should see it. No biscuit. So my question is: Is there any way, using usbview or lsusb -vv, to detect if a port is consuming power to charge the battery in this scenario? Thanks all. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure. -- Samuel Butler -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
