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If you’ve ever had problems installing USB devices in Windows, i.e. if you connect a mouse and Windows doesn’t properly install the drivers for you, I learned a great trick that might be able to resolve this problem.

From what I can tell, Windows stores a “ghost” copy of any device you install which doesn’t get removed when you unplug the device. For example, if you plug your mouse into your computer, your computer will remember that mouse and the drivers that went with it. If you plug that same mouse into a different USB port, Windows will make another “ghost” copy of that mouse, but won’t delete the first copy.

This means that over the course of your computer’s life, you could have dozens of “ghost” copies of the exact same mouse on your computer, which in my experience can cause driver conflicts, especially if the driver wasn’t installed properly the first time.

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The Fix

Note: This guide involves the use of the Command Prompt and Device Manager. If you are uncomfortable performing these actions, please see an authorized computer technician instead. As always, be very careful when deleting anything from your computer – especially hardware devices.

Step 1: Open the Command Prompt by opening the Start menu and selecting Run, then type cmd and press enter. If Run isn’t available in this menu, you can also open it by pressing the Windows Key + R.

Step 2. Copy and paste the following into the command prompt and press enter (you need to Right Click and select Paste in the command prompt).

This command will reveal all the hidden “ghost” devices on your computer.

Step 3: Maverick network & wireless cards driver download for windows xp. Open the Device Manager. This can be done by typing devmgmt into the command prompt or by right clicking My Computer, selecting Manage, then clicking Device Manager on the left.

The Device Manager shows you all hardware currently installed on your computer, sorted by hardware classification.

Step 4: Even though the “ghost” devices are now enabled, they will still be hidden from this view. Go to the View menu and select Show hidden devices.

You can now identify the device you’re having problems with and delete the devices with faded icons. In my case, I was able to remove several identical mice that were all from the same device.

To remove the extra devices, just select them (limited to one at a time) and press the Del key. You will have to confirm this action.

After I deleted the several extra mice, I was able to install the original mouse without any problems. Big thanks to Bryon Hills for this tip.

Author:	Greg Kroah-Hartman

Introduction¶

The Linux USB subsystem has grown from supporting only two differenttypes of devices in the 2.2.7 kernel (mice and keyboards), to over 20different types of devices in the 2.4 kernel. Linux currently supportsalmost all USB class devices (standard types of devices like keyboards,mice, modems, printers and speakers) and an ever-growing number ofvendor-specific devices (such as USB to serial converters, digitalcameras, Ethernet devices and MP3 players). For a full list of thedifferent USB devices currently supported, see Resources.

The remaining kinds of USB devices that do not have support on Linux arealmost all vendor-specific devices. Each vendor decides to implement acustom protocol to talk to their device, so a custom driver usuallyneeds to be created. Some vendors are open with their USB protocols andhelp with the creation of Linux drivers, while others do not publishthem, and developers are forced to reverse-engineer. See Resources forsome links to handy reverse-engineering tools.

Because each different protocol causes a new driver to be created, Ihave written a generic USB driver skeleton, modelled after thepci-skeleton.c file in the kernel source tree upon which many PCInetwork drivers have been based. This USB skeleton can be found atdrivers/usb/usb-skeleton.c in the kernel source tree. In this article Iwill walk through the basics of the skeleton driver, explaining thedifferent pieces and what needs to be done to customize it to yourspecific device.

Linux USB Basics¶

If you are going to write a Linux USB driver, please become familiarwith the USB protocol specification. It can be found, along with manyother useful documents, at the USB home page (see Resources). Anexcellent introduction to the Linux USB subsystem can be found at theUSB Working Devices List (see Resources). It explains how the Linux USBsubsystem is structured and introduces the reader to the concept of USBurbs (USB Request Blocks), which are essential to USB drivers.

The first thing a Linux USB driver needs to do is register itself withthe Linux USB subsystem, giving it some information about which devicesthe driver supports and which functions to call when a device supportedby the driver is inserted or removed from the system. All of thisinformation is passed to the USB subsystem in the usb_driverstructure. The skeleton driver declares a usb_driver as:

The variable name is a string that describes the driver. It is used ininformational messages printed to the system log. The probe anddisconnect function pointers are called when a device that matches theinformation provided in the id_table variable is either seen orremoved.

The fops and minor variables are optional. Most USB drivers hook intoanother kernel subsystem, such as the SCSI, network or TTY subsystem.These types of drivers register themselves with the other kernelsubsystem, and any user-space interactions are provided through thatinterface. But for drivers that do not have a matching kernel subsystem,such as MP3 players or scanners, a method of interacting with user spaceis needed. The USB subsystem provides a way to register a minor devicenumber and a set of file_operations function pointers that enablethis user-space interaction. The skeleton driver needs this kind ofinterface, so it provides a minor starting number and a pointer to itsfile_operations functions.

The USB driver is then registered with a call to usb_register(),usually in the driver’s init function, as shown here:

When the driver is unloaded from the system, it needs to deregisteritself with the USB subsystem. This is done with the usb_deregister()function:

To enable the linux-hotplug system to load the driver automatically whenthe device is plugged in, you need to create a MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE.The following code tells the hotplug scripts that this module supports asingle device with a specific vendor and product ID:

There are other macros that can be used in describing a structusb_device_id for drivers that support a whole class of USBdrivers. See usb.h for more information on this.

Device operation¶

When a device is plugged into the USB bus that matches the device IDpattern that your driver registered with the USB core

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