-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 10:37:31AM +0100, Gjermund Skogstad wrote: > torsdag 25. januar 2007, 10:14, skrev nigel barker: > > Thanks for the reply Gjermund. One of the machines in question spends > > most of its time as a Skolelinux diskless workstation, but occasionally > > gets booted into Edubuntu from its hard drive. The Usb 2 drives work in > > that case, so that's why I thought it must be something to do with > > skolelinux. > > > > Thanks, > > Nigel > > > > Interesting ... > What kernel option do you use in Skolelinux, 2.4 or the newer 2.6 option? > > My experience is on the 2.6 kernel so that might be it, but it is also a > possibility that this is a matter of memory device id missing in database. If > that's the case it would probably not help upgrading the kernel. Not even to > latest compatible version (which you in any case would have to keep security > patched on your own). > > (Some years ago I used to add PCMCIA and USB hw id's by hand to get my stuff > working, but i scarcely see that as a liable option for your scenario :) > > Sorry, I'm out of ideas to a solution for you. > > (.. unless of course you are running a 2.4 kernel and can make a successful > switch to the 2.6 option.) > > :) > > Gjermund Hi Nigel, have you attempted to extract some lines from /var/log/messages or dmesg to see if they shed some light on the issue? cheers, Kev - -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)
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