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Philips USB IR receiver for remote SRM 5100 not detected at boot

Asked by Simon Vidmar

Hello!

I'm experiencing a strange behaviour with my Philips remote SRM 5100 IR receiver. If IR receiver is plugged in while booting it does not power up (it has a green LED which is lighting when IR receiver is working)

dmesg output for that port is:
[ 3.013793] usb 4-2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 3
[ 3.193775] usb 4-2: device descriptor read/64, error -62
[ 3.483770] usb 4-2: device descriptor read/64, error -62
[ 3.773773] usb 4-2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 4
[ 3.953799] usb 4-2: device descriptor read/64, error -62
[ 4.245152] usb 4-2: device descriptor read/64, error -62
[ 4.533774] usb 4-2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 5
[ 4.953777] usb 4-2: device not accepting address 5, error -62
[ 5.152523] usb 4-2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 6
[ 5.583780] usb 4-2: device not accepting address 6, error -62

lspci does not list receiver

at same time LIRC is working ok:

[ 10.986349] lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, major 61
[ 11.018715]
[ 11.018717] lirc_mceusb2: Philips eHome USB IR Transceiver and Microsoft MCE 2005 Remote Control driver for LIRC $Revision: 1.81 $
[ 11.018719] lirc_mceusb2: Daniel Melander <email address hidden>, Martin Blatter <email address hidden>
[ 11.018739] usbcore: registered new interface driver lirc_mceusb2

If I plug IR receiver out and back in it starts working

lspci shows the receiver

dmesg output after plugging in:

[ 3262.780060] usb 4-2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 7
[ 3263.018583] usb 4-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 3263.210052] usb 4-2: reset full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 7
[ 3263.430403] lirc_dev: lirc_register_driver: sample_rate: 0
[ 3263.436391] lirc_mceusb2[7]: SF+ Dongle(e.d) on usb4:7

My system is based on Asus M3N78-EM motherboard with Phenom II X4 810 processor running Karmic Koala beta updated
(uname -a: Linux mmedia02 2.6.31-11-generic #38-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 2 11:06:40 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux)

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Simon Vidmar (vidmar-simon) said : 		#1

OK.

After googling for entire evening today I found that this behaviour is not a bug but feature :-( (thanks to this post translated from German http://translate.google.si/translate?hl=sl&sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fforum.ubuntuusers.de%2Ftopic%2Fbedienungsanleitung-von-amarok-2-gesucht%2Fprevious%2F).

This IR receiver (part nuber OVU411002/00) should be turned on with remote control. To do this you must simply select PC mode on remote controller and use Power button.

Since I don't have USB hub right now, can somebody testify that IR receiver will be turned automatically on if it connected to USB hub (as mentioned in last post in link I posted above).

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Simon Vidmar (vidmar-simon) said : 		#2

Since no further information was added by other users I'm closing this one.