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clino

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Registered: 2025-11-14

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USB controller no longer recognized, error -71

My USB controller (8BitDo Ultimate 2C Wired) no longer works since yesterday, games don't detect it and is isn't shown on lsusb.
When plugging it in and running dmesg, I get something like this:

usb 3-1: new full-speed USB device number 55 using xhci_hcd
usb 3-1: device descriptor read/64, error -71
usb 3-1: device descriptor read/64, error -71
usb 3-1: new full-speed USB device number 56 using xhci_hcd
usb 3-1: device descriptor read/64, error -71
usb 3-1: device descriptor read/64, error -71
usb usb3-port1: attempt power cycle
usb 3-1: new full-speed USB device number 57 using xhci_hcd
usb 3-1: Device not responding to setup address.
usb 3-1: Device not responding to setup address.
usb 3-1: device not accepting address 57, error -71
usb 3-1: WARN: invalid context state for evaluate context command.
usb 3-1: new full-speed USB device number 58 using xhci_hcd
usb 3-1: Device not responding to setup address.
usb 3-1: Device not responding to setup address.
usb 3-1: device not accepting address 58, error -71
usb 3-1: WARN: invalid context state for evaluate context command.
usb usb3-port1: unable to enumerate USB device

I've tried changing usb ports, updating packages, rebooting, but to no avail.

I think I might have tried to update the firmware last time I used the controller (iirc a Steam popup prompted me to do it), and after digging a little bit, i found this blog post, so i managed to get the firmware file, but the controller isn't detected by fwupd, so i can't apply it

Does somebody have an idea what I should do ?