Unable to enumerate USB buses! flashing n900
 

Hi all. I'm trying to flash my n900 but i'm getting the error message "Unable to enumerate USB buses!" I'm using opensuse 11.2 32 bit.

I've tried the other usb ports and i'm still getting the same error message :-(.

DBUS say's

[ 4680.715643] usb 2-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 26
[ 4680.832294] usb 2-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0421, idProduct=0106
[ 4680.832311] usb 2-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=34, Product=38, SerialNumber=0
[ 4680.832323] usb 2-1: Product: Nokia USB ROM
[ 4680.832332] usb 2-1: Manufacturer: Nokia
[ 4680.832500] usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 4681.132697] usb 2-1: USB disconnect, address 26
[ 4681.926173] usb 2-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 27
[ 4682.126920] usb 2-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0421, idProduct=0105
[ 4682.126937] usb 2-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=5
[ 4682.126950] usb 2-1: Product: Nokia N900 (Update mode)
[ 4682.126959] usb 2-1: Manufacturer: Nokia
[ 4682.126968] usb 2-1: SerialNumber: 4D554D353939313334
[ 4682.127152] usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 4683.661657] usb 2-1: USB disconnect, address 27


Doing my head in now. I've tried mounting the usbfs and turning off power saving mode, still i get the same message.

Any help please?

Re: Unable to enumerate USB buses! flashing n900
 

I'm sorry to resume this, but it's the first result on google.

The fix is to use libusb 0.1.12!

Re: Unable to enumerate USB buses! flashing n900
 

This fix didn't work for me as OpenSuse 11.3 already has libusb0.1.12 but presumably it isn't where flasher thinks it should be.

What worked for me was:

1. Download Mandriva's RPM of libusb0.1_4-0.1.12-12mdv2009.1.i586.rpm

2. create /opt/libusb and cd to there

3. su to root, sudo does not work properly here!

4. Move the RPM to /opt/libusb

5. Run: rpm2cpio libusb0.1_4-0.1.12-12mdv2009.1.i586.rpm | cpio -idmv

6. export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/libusb/lib

7. Run flasher again and it should work

8. Exit root shell

This is an old thread but Googling for this problem turns up almost nothing useful.

Re: Unable to enumerate USB buses! flashing n900
 

Proper solution here