When Bluetooth goes poof Having rebooted my computer after a few months of continuous operation, I suddenly failed to use my Bluetooth headphones. It took some time to figure out that the problem wasn’t with the Cinnamon 3.8.9 fancy stuff, nor the DBus interface, which produced error messages. There was simply no Bluetooth device in [...]
TL;DR Bought an Orico PCIe adapter for USB 3.0 for testing a USB device I’m developing (PVU3-5O2I). It has the VL805 chipset (1106/3483) which isn’t xHCI compliant. So it works only with the vendor’s own drivers for Windows, which you’ll have to struggle a bit to install. Update: Be sure to read the comments at [...]
Introduction While implementing Xillybus‘ USB 3.0 general purpose IP core for FPGAs, I found the USB Implementers Forum’s compliance tool handy, yet somewhat quirky, for verifying I got things right. It was USB3CV version 2.1.12.1, running on Windows 10 @32 bit. The 64 bit version works the same (I’ve tested it as well). A GPLed [...]
Ever wanted to see how the a Linux USB host talks with its PHY with ULPI commands? Probably not. But if you do, here’s how I did it on a Zynq device, connected to an USB3320 USB 2.0 PHY chip. Note that: The relevant sources must be compiled into the kernel. Modules are loaded too [...]
Introduction I purchased a HiTech Global 3-Port USB 3.0 SuperSpeed FMC Module (also known as USB3 FMC), which is an FPGA Mezzanine Card, primarily based upon TI’s SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Transceiver, TUSB1310A. Even though this board works fine at the end of the day, my experience with it was full with surprises, not all of [...]
Introduction These are the consideration and design decisions I took when designing a transparent hub for low- and full-speed USB (that is, all covered by USB 1.1, and not high-speed as required by USB 2.0). A transparent 1:1 hub is a device with one male USB plug, and one female plug. It basically substitutes an [...]
A few notes on where to find USB related kernel files on a Linux system (kernel 3.12.20 in my case) $ lsusb [ ... ] Bus 001 Device 059: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Now find the position in the tree. It should be device 59 under bus number 1: $ lsusb -t [ ... ] [...]
USB 3.0 is slowly becoming increasingly common, and it’s a quiet revolution. These innocent-looking blue connectors don’t tell the little secret: They carry 4 new data pins (SSTX+, SSTX-, SSRX+, SSRX-), which will replace the existing D+/D- communication pins one day. Simply put, USB 3.0 is completely standalone; it doesn’t really need those D+/D- to [...]
Pretty much as a side note, I should mention that the firmware should and can be loaded with a Windows utility named K2024FWUP1.exe. Get it from whereever you can, and verify it isn’t dirty with $ shasum K2024FWUP1.exe c9414cb825af79f5d87bd9772e10e87633fbf125 K2024FWUP1.exe If this isn’t done, Window’s Device Manager will say that the device can’t be started, [...]
Every now and then, some USB device misbehaves badly enough to knock out the entire interface, to the extent that the system doesn’t detect any new USB devices. Or work so well with the existing ones, for that matter. The solution for me until now was to reboot the computer. But hey, I don’t like [...]