Unable to enumerate USB buses

[DaveQB]

So I went to flash my N900 as since the PR1.1 upgrade it randomly reboots a lot and I get:

Unable to enumerate USB buses

I am using Mandriva 2010.0

I am guessing if I use an Ubuntu Live I wouldn't have this issue. So I was just curious is anyone knows.

lsusb
Bus 001 Device 016: ID 0421:0105 Nokia Mobile Phones E61 (Firmware update mode)

I had to install package "libusb-compat0.1_4" in order to get the "libusb-0.1.so.4" file the flasher complained about.

[silviumc]

I'm replying because Google returns this page when searching for "Unable to enumerate USB buses"

The solution (on all Linux distributions) is to prevent the cdc_phonet kernel module from loading.

How you do that depends on your distribution, try searching for "yourdistro kernel module blacklist".

For example, on openSUSE 11.4 you add this:
blacklist cdc_phonet
to this file:
/etc/modprobe.d/50-blacklist.conf
When you're done flashing you can remove the line.

PS: on SUSE, if you have x86_64, you need to install this package first: libusb-0_1-4-32bit