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[Chris Hill]

On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, alex at mantrav.co.uk wrote:

>  Everything was perfect with my system for about 2 years but about 4
>  days ago I started having a problem. Every 24 hours i got the
>  error message "error reading usb urb" and modem completely goes off
>  (all lights are going off)

Sounds like a USB problem. (Sorry, master-of-the-obvious here.) Since 
this was working before and the problems are new, maybe there is a 
hardware failure beginning to happen.

>  System is FreeBSD 5.2.1, USB modem ADSL Alcatel Speedtouch 330.

Then again a quick google to
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22error+reading+usb+urb%22&btnG=Google+Search 
shows lots of folks having issues with the Alcatel Speedtouch 330. Maybe 
read some of those articles. (My mailer may wrap the url, sorry.)

Also, you may want to consider upgrading to 6.0 (6.1 is due to be 
released very soon), or at least to the latest 5.x. 5.2.1 is kind of 
long in the tooth by now.

>  What can it be?

Look in /var/log, and browse through the file called messages. There may 
be some clues there.

HTH.

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Chris Hill               chris at monochrome.org
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