How to disable USB errors?

[Dustpuppy]

I've been having problems getting my Epson C44UX printer to print, and the helpline would only support Windoze . They got it working under XP by going into the hardware device manager, expanding USB controllers, right-clicking on the enhanced host controller (this is for USB2) and checking the box "don't tell me about USB errors". Aparrently there's too much traffic at the USB port.

 

So the question is: how do I do this under Mandrake (10OE, kernel 2.6.3-7)? I can't see a similar thing in Hardrake, and all I can think of is adding an option to /etc/modules.conf - but I have no idea what to add! Can anyone help?

[somedude]

I seem to have a lot of trouble with my VIA ehci controller on my ECS K7S5APro mobo. The mouse used to lock up all the time, until I got fed up and hooked it up to one of the USB 1.1 ports.

 

Did you try to get the printer working on one of the 1.1 ports?

 

Adding an entry to modules conf tells the system to load another driver at startup. I don't think you need to do that, all three USB drivers (uhci, ohci and ehci) should be already loaded (you can try to modprobe them).

 

Is the printer detected in the Hardware section of the MCC?

[Dustpuppy]

I've got 6 USB ports, and I can't tell which are 1.1 and which 2! I've tried the printer on most of them, and it still doesn't work.

 

Is there any way I can disable USB2 on one of the ports?

 

Yes, MCC hardware does detect it. Printerdrake detects it as well and will install it all properly, it just doesn't print!