External keyboard stops suddenly

[SL_Pirate]

My external keyboard stops working suddenly and I see no reason for this to happen. It starts working again usually when I replug it to another USB port of the otherside usually. (Sometimes have to try few times). But I can say this only happens in mint. I have a duel boot with windows 10 which I use rarely but haven't noticed the issue. Could this be a driver issue? Please help me to figure this out cuz its really annoying when this happens.
I currently run on linux mint Cinnamon 20.1 64bit
Thanks everyone in advance. I love mint.

[gittiest personITW]

Welcome to the forums.

Could you go to the following link and follow number 5 in your reply so ppl have a better idea on what your system is.

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=83444

[SL_Pirate]

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System:
  Kernel: 5.4.0-74-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.3.0 
  Desktop: Cinnamon 4.8.6 wm: muffin 4.8.1 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 
  Distro: Linux Mint 20.1 Ulyssa base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP ProBook 4530s v: A0001D02 
  serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 167C v: KBC Version 22.26 serial: <filter> 
  BIOS: Hewlett-Packard v: 68SRR Ver. F.65 date: 02/13/2018 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 0% condition: 47.5/47.5 Wh (100%) volts: 10.8/10.8 
  model: Hewlett-Packard Primary type: Li-ion serial: <filter> 
  status: Unknown 
CPU:
  Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i3-2310M bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Sandy Bridge rev: 7 L2 cache: 3072 KiB 
  flags: avx lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 16762 
  Speed: 1555 MHz min/max: 800/2100 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 941 2: 937 
  3: 938 4: 907 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics 
  vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 
  chip ID: 8086:0116 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa 
  resolution: 1366x768~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 3000 (SNB GT2) 
  v: 3.3 Mesa 20.2.6 compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio 
  vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 
  chip ID: 8086:1c20 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-74-generic 
Network:
  Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter 
  vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: ath9k v: kernel port: 5040 bus ID: 24:00.0 
  chip ID: 168c:002b 
  IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 2000 bus ID: 25:00.0 
  chip ID: 10ec:8168 
  IF: enp37s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-3: Qualcomm Atheros AR3011 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb 
  bus ID: 2-1.6:7 chip ID: 0cf3:3005 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 141.78 GiB (15.2%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: HGST (Hitachi) model: HTS541010A9E680 
  size: 931.51 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 5400 rpm serial: <filter> 
  rev: A7J0 scheme: MBR 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 82.70 GiB used: 42.18 GiB (51.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda6 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 52.0 C mobo: 0.0 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/alexlarsson-flatpak-focal.list 
  1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/alexlarsson/flatpak/ubuntu focal main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list 
  1: deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list 
  1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com ulyssa main upstream import backport #id:linuxmint_main
  2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal main restricted universe multiverse
  3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
  4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse
  5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security main restricted universe multiverse
  6: deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ focal partner
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/slgobinath-gcalendar-focal.list 
  1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/slgobinath/gcalendar/ubuntu focal main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list 
  1: deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/packages.microsoft.gpg] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/vscode stable main
Info:
  Processes: 244 Uptime: 5m Memory: 3.78 GiB used: 1.30 GiB (34.5%) 
  Init: systemd v: 245 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 alt: 9 Shell: bash 
  v: 5.0.17 running in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.0.38