why usb is not working with Centos 5 while it is working with other OSs

Question

I have a box with gigabyte GA-B150-HD3 motherboard, I installed Centos 7 on its SSD and every thing worked fine. But for some reason I have to install Centos 5 on it and I installed Centos 5.11 on it. during the installation process my mouse wasn't working and after installation non of usb drives works and only my ps2 keyboard is working(even my ps2 mouse is not working). Following suggestions on this thread usb device not working I enabled "xHCI handoff" (I don't have iommu option in bios!!) on bios and tried iommu=on , iommu=soft and iommu=pt kernel options, none worked.

lsusb command shows nothing. and this is output of lsmod command before and after loading usb_storage:

this is output for dmesg:

any help on how to fix the problem?

Edit: this is my kernel options in grub.conf:

kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-398.el5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup/LogVol00 noapic acpi=off rhgb

Answer 1

GA-B150-HD3 is a fairly recent motherboard, much more recent than CentOS 5's kernel 2.6.18. You don't have drivers for hardware that didn't even exist when the kernel was released. You need a newer kernel.

Elrepo carries kernel backports for CentOS, but I think they no longer support CentOS 5.

My recommendation would be to install a recent distribution, such as CentOS 7, and run whatever you need on CentOS 5 in a virtual environment. This doesn't have to be a full-fledged virtual machine if you can't take the performance hit, a simple chroot is enough for many things, and if it doesn't work you may use namespaces or containers — run the userland of CentOS 5 on a CentOS 7 kernel.