CentOS - Sep 2016 - Centos & USB3

I replaced my development machine with 6 cores, 32 GB etc.

I thought it would be simply inserting the existing HDDs and
changing /etc/sysconfig/ifcfg-eth0 but,

* in the UEFI "BIOS" USB2 and USB3 work.

* in C5.11 USB2 works but USB3 does not.

* in C6.5 (my install disk; OS be updated to C6.8) USB2 works but USB3
does not.

On both C5 and C6 lsusb shows an entry for the plugged-in keyboard (USB2
socket) and for the wireless mouse (USB2 socket) but nothing else.

Please does anyone have any ideas how to solve this baffling
time-consuming problem ?

Is is a UEFI (motherboard Asrock 970A-G/3.1) configuration matter or
potentially the absence of a suitable USB3 driver for Centos ?

Thank you.



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Regards,

Paul.
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On 09/27/2016 11:55 AM, Always Learning wrote:
> * in C6.5 (my install disk; OS be updated to C6.8) USB2 works but USB3
> does not.
It is a bit confusing how you worded this.  Are you saying that you have 
already installed 6.5 and fully updated it to 6.8?
> Please does anyone have any ideas how to solve this baffling
> time-consuming problem ?
>
> Is is a UEFI (motherboard Asrock 970A-G/3.1) configuration matter or
> potentially the absence of a suitable USB3 driver for Centos ?
You're probably not going to like my suggestion.  Try CentOS 7.2 on this 
board and see what it finds.

There comes a time in every EL release cycle where new hardware is no 
longer well-supported.  CentOS 5 is way past that, and CentOS 6, while 
not as far past it is still too old to install on some of the newest 
hardware.  Even CentOS 7 has issues with some of the newest hardware.

You have the double-whammy of UEFI and a newer chipset.  While CentOS 
6.8 can handily support USB3 on some hardware (been there, done that 
myself, with CentOS 6.5 if I recall on a Dell Latitude D830 with an 
ExpressCard XHCI (USB3) controller that worked great).

You can of course try the ELrepo kernel-lt or kernel-ml packages, which 
provide the LongTerm or MainLine kernels packaged for CentOS.