usb x-x: device not accepting address x, error -62

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Hello, I have the most wonderful TCL installed on a couple of machines, and am superlatively impressed by its compactness. Thanks to all who have contributed to its development.

I am having a USB problem on the older of the two machines. The USB device works as expected on the desktop, but when I try to start TCL on the older Toshiba laptop, my USB device seems to hang up the boot process. Note however that Windows on this same laptop does NOT have trouble with it.

I've have done random searching online towards solving this issue, however I won't confuse this thread with whatever clues I've stumbled on. The issue however is not uncommon, and does seem to occur on various machines using various USB devices. Also, the problem does not manifest on all builds and variants.

Does anyone have any idea what might be going on with this USB addressing trouble Error -62 ?

EDIT: I just booted the laptop, but I had forgotten to actually plug the USB device in, and so, even WITHOUT any USB devices plugged in, the error persists. At this time I should point out that this laptop has two USB ports, and one was physically destroyed by a short circuiting device some years ago.

So the problem is now narrowed down to linux not being able to deal with the fact that one of the two USB ports is blown. Again, Windows deals with this just fine, the damaged USB ports simply shows up as an 'unrecognized device'.

It occurs to me now that this issue may infact be a kernel flaw?

EDIT: Further investigation reveals that this USB message at boot time is NOT in fact what is choking the boot process. I tested a virgin TCL, the latest offered here, and it is missing firmware for the laptop built in LAN, in my case Intel 'e100/d102e_ucode.bin'.

This USB message is not a problem, and TCL handles a defective USB port just fine I believe. Onwards...

EDIT: and after disabling the Laptop built in LAN, the boot process halts with this:
touch: /tce/xwbar.lst: No such file or directory

At this point I'm pretty sure I'm stumped. Anyone?


I created a new thread as this one is polluted now  
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=8873.0