On Fri, 30 Aug 2019 15:01:51 +1000, Timothy Rice
<timothy.rice@unimelb.edu.au> wrote:

 >> [ 7413.669770] usb 4-3.1: new SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device number 8 using
 >> xhci_hcd
 >> [ 7413.682284] usb 4-3.1: New USB device found, idVendor=174c,
 >> idProduct=55aa, bcdDevice= 1.00
 >> [ 7413.682285] usb 4-3.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=2, Product=3,
 >> SerialNumber=1
 >> [ 7413.682286] usb 4-3.1: Product: ASMT1051
 >> [ 7413.682287] usb 4-3.1: Manufacturer: asmediag
 >> [ 7413.682287] usb 4-3.1: SerialNumber: 1234567890B7
 >
 > It looks like such devices are a little notorious [1][2] but can be
 > worked
 > with using tweaks under /etc/modprobe.d/ [1][3]
 >
 > ~ Tim
 >
 > [1] https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=237829
 > [2] https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-usb/msg109480.html
 > [3] https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-usb/msg109524.html
 >


Thanks for the advice and info.

It's all a bit beyond me at this stage of proceedings, I'll have to
spend some time trying come up to understand what it all means.