This article describes an issue that occurs when you use a FireWire port-based device in Windows 8.1 or Windows 8. Additional steps of configuration is required to enable this update after the installation.

Tektronix USB instruments use and require a generic USB Device Driver, referred to as a USB Test & Measurement Class driver or USBTMC driver. USBTMC is a subclass of the USB specification. This driver is typically included with the Virtual Instrument Software Architecture (VISA). (See block diagram below.). Follow the below steps to uninstall the Universal Serial bus controllers driver: 1. Press Windows + R keys on the Keyboard. Type devmgmt.msc in the Open text box. Expand Universal Serial bus controllers from the window. Right- click on the drivers and select Uninstall. Click on OK on Confirm device uninstall prompt.

Symptoms

Assume that you have a computer that equips with an IEEE 1394 FireWire controller card. After you upgrade the computer from Windows 7 to Windows 8.1 or Windows 8, devices that connect to the computer by using a FireWire port do not work.

Cause

This issue occurs because the legacy 1394 bus drivers (1394bus.sys and Ochi1394.sys) are removed in Windows 8.1 or Windows 8.

Resolution

Update information

How to obtain this update

Microsoft Download Center

The following files are available for download from the Microsoft Download Center:

For more information about how to download Microsoft support files, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

119591 How to obtain Microsoft support files from online services Microsoft scanned this file for viruses. Microsoft used the most current virus-detection software that was available on the date that the file was posted. The file is stored on security-enhanced servers that help prevent any unauthorized changes to the file.

Additional steps of configuration requirement

After you install the 1394 OHCI Legacy Driver.msi file, follow these steps:

1. Right-click the Legacy1394.inf file under one of the following paths based on the computer's architecture:
   

   • C:Program Files1394 OHCI Compliant Host Controller (Legacy)x86_driver

   • C:Program Files1394 OHCI Compliant Host Controller (Legacy)x64_driver

2. Click Install.

3. Open Device Manager in Control Panel.

4. Expand IEEE 1394 Bus host controllers, and then locate the host controller.

5. Right-click the host controller, and then click Update Driver Software.
   The screen shot of the host controller and the Update Driver Software is listed in the following example:
   

6. Click Browse my computer for driver software.

7. Click Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer.

8. Click Generic1394 OHCI compliant host controller (Legacy), and then click the Next button.

9. Click the Close button.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for installing this update.

Registry information

To apply this update, you do not have to make any changes to the registry.

Restart requirement

You have to restart the computer after you apply this update.

Update replacement information

This update does not replace a previously released update.

File information

The global version of this hotfix installs files that have the attributes that are listed in the following tables. The dates and the times for these files are listed in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). The dates and the times for these files on your local computer are displayed in your local time together with your current daylight saving time (DST) bias. Additionally, the dates and the times may change when you perform certain operations on the files.

Windows 8.1 and Windows 8 file information notesThe MANIFEST files (.manifest) and the MUM files (.mum) that are installed for each environment are not listed

For all supported x86-based versions of Windows 8.1 or of Windows 8

For all supported x86-based versions of Windows 8.1 or of Windows 8

Status

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the 'Applies to' section.

More Information

Steps of uninstalling the 1394 OHCI Legacy Driver.msi file

1. Open Control Panel in the Category view.

2. Click Uninstall a program in Control Panel.

3. Right-click 1394 OHCI Compliant Host Controller (Legacy), and then click Uninstall.
   The screen shot of uninstalling the 1394 OHCI Compliant Host Controller (Legacy) is listed in the following example:
   

Additional package information

Comark Instruments Port Devices Driver Ed

• This driver is only intended to work with legacy 1394 host controllers. Therefore, you may experience lower transfer data rates than the 1394b driver.

• The driver is intended to resolve compatibility issues for 1394 peripherals on 1394b systems. If you are not experiencing these issues, you should continue to use inbox drivers that are provided in Windows 8.1 or Windows 8.

• You have to reinstall this stand-alone driver package if you upgrade to a newer operating system version in the future.

For more information about software update terminology, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

824684 Description of the standard terminology that is used to describe Microsoft software updates

Today we will see how to list USB devices in Linux and their properties such as speed, BUS, class, type details etc. This is part of our on going hardware detection series. We already covered following stuff.

What is USB?

USB(Universal Serial Bus) is a stranded developed to replace different types of BUS’s available. This is a solution devices to eliminate vendor lock-down of hardware ports, so that BUS’s will be identical across different devices from different vendors. USB devices solve one more problem i.e. speeds. USB devices can reach up 5GB/s as of this writing where as PCI and serial devices have less speeds. Depending of USB firmware, it’s categorize in to USB 1.0, USB 2.0, USB 3.0. USB have competitor in the from of Thunderbolt interface.

As a Linux User/administrator we should know USB bus details as well as devices connected. In this post we will see how to use lsusb command to display different USB properties.

Example 1: List all the USB ports available

Output:

Let us try to understand above output in detail.

Bus 002Device 003: ID 0781:5567SanDisk Corp.Cruzer Blade

Bus 002 : This is bus number where SanDisk USB stick is attached.

Device 003: This is the third device attached to bus 002, the other two devices are “Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub” and ” Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub”

ID 0781:5567 is the number given to this SanDisk, The number before : indicates the manufacture ID and number after : indicates device ID. To get more info on this visit Linux-USB site.

SanDisk Corp. Cruzer Blade is the name of manufacture and device name.

Example 2: Check how many USB ports available in your machine so that we can connect USB devices to these ports.

Output:

These ports may be internal or external to the system.

Example : Get detailed information of a USB device connected to a machine. Suppose I want to see information about /dev/bus/usb/002/005 device use below command

Output:

To know each of these types, click here.

Example 3: Get all the USB ports available and devices connected using verbose mode.

Clipped output:

Example 4: List all mass storage devices in your system.

Output:

From the above output we can find that there are total three USB storage devices present on the machine.

Example 5: Find USB devices protocol version.

Output:

Depending on the version, the speed varies. Below table give you clear idea about the speeds associated with these versions.

Example 6: Find USB device supported speeds by using tree structure option

Otuput:

In our next post we will see other hardware device properties.

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