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["Christopher M. Penalver" <christopher.m.penalver@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ian McClenahan, as per
http://www.dell.com/support/troubleshooting/us/en/19/Product/precision-t5500
an update is available for your BIOS (A16). If you update to this, does
it change anything?

If not, could you please both specify what happened, and provide the output of the following terminal command:
sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date

Thank you for your understanding.

** Tags added: bios-outdated-a16 needs-upstream-testing oneiric
regression-release

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Incomplete

** Tags removed: kernel-bug-exists-upstream
** Tags added: kernel-bug-exists-upstream-v3.7-rc4

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Title:
  LibUSB usb_control_msg fails for kernel 3

Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Since Ubuntu moved to kernel 3 we are no longer able to communicate with our USB device which uses libusb 0.1.  The device works with Ubuntu 10.04 and earlier but fails with Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.10.  I tried Fedora 17 which also uses kernel 3 and it functions as expected.  The first point where I can see problems is a call to usb_control_msg
  usb_control_msg(mDevice, USB_RECIP_DEVICE | USB_TYPE_VENDOR, 0xA0, 0xE600, 0, (char*)pBuffer, 1, 1000)
  which now returns -1.
  --- 
  ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: i386
  AudioDevicesInUse:
   USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
   /dev/snd/controlC0:  ubuntu     3739 F.... pulseaudio
  CRDA: Error: command ['iw', 'reg', 'get'] failed with exit code 1: nl80211 not found.
  CasperVersion: 1.328
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  IwConfig:
   lo        no wireless extensions.
   
   eth0      no wireless extensions.
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release i386 (20121017.2)
  MachineType: Dell Inc. Precision WorkStation T5500
  Package: linux (not installed)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcFB: 0 radeondrmfb
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/username/install/boot/vmlinuz debian-installer/custom-installation=/username/install/custom-installation noprompt quiet splash boot=casper ro debian-installer/locale=en_GB.UTF-8 keyboard-configuration/layoutcode=gb keyboard-configuration/variantcode= -- rootflags=sync
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
  RelatedPackageVersions:
   linux-restricted-modules-3.5.0-17-generic N/A
   linux-backports-modules-3.5.0-17-generic  N/A
   linux-firmware                            1.95
  RfKill:
   
  Tags:  quantal running-unity
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic i686
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
  dmi.bios.date: 07/06/2012
  dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: A14
  dmi.board.name: 0CRH6C
  dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.board.version: A01
  dmi.chassis.type: 7
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA14:bd07/06/2012:svnDellInc.:pnPrecisionWorkStationT5500:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0CRH6C:rvrA01:cvnDellInc.:ct7:cvr:
  dmi.product.name: Precision WorkStation T5500
  dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

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