On Monday 02 August 2004 17:45, Fran�ois Dreyfuerst wrote: > 2) Since I only have a DSL Net connection through USB modem, and no floppy > drive on this laptop anyway, I need to mount my USB memory stick. > > Evrey time I try to do it, I get something like that (hotplug is active, usb-storage and sd_mod modules loaded a boot time) : > >usb 1-3: new high speed USB device using address 4 (4 can be another > > number) usb 1-3: control timeout on ep0out > >usb 1-3: control timeout on ep0out > >usb 1-3: device not accepting address 4, error -110 > >and then the same goes on with 5 instead of 4 as address ... > > When I look in the /dev directory, I see no sd* (or scd*, ...) device. > cat /proc/scsi/scsi says : "Attached devices : " [none] > > Using the makedev script didn't seem to fix that problem, but ... > Now comes the most surprising : > > booting from a Mandrake linux (french) distribution in what is called > "rescue" mode (which doesn't exist on the sid-amd64-NetInstall CD), > shipping a 2.4.2x kernel, and mounting /dev/hda7 under /mnt, I see all the > devices I would need under /mnt/dev --> the /dev directory of the Debian > system, if I'm not absolutely confused. In other words, it looks like all > the devices have in fact been created, but some of them are not seen under > Debian ...
Your debian install probably uses devfs. On boot this replaces the static /dev, and only creates device nodes (/dev entries) for the devices that actually exist. You aren't getting device nodes because the kernel drivers for your usb disk aren't working. All I can suggest is try a different kernel. I have experienced USB problems on some machines with 2.6 kernels. Paul
