Are you absolutely SURE the kernel is 100% kosher, correct modules, etc?
On Sun, 01 Apr 2001, Benjamin Sher wrote:
> Dear Alex and friends:
>
> Have tried different ways to get Linux to detect my USB. Nothing that I
> do seems to work.
>
> Here is the data:
> 1) /etc/modules
>
> [sher@sher07 /etc]$ cat modules
> # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time. #
> # This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are
> # to be loaded at boot time, one per line. Comments begin with # a `#',
> and everything on the line after them are ignored.
> scsi_hostadapter
> usb-interface
> [sher@sher07 /etc]$
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> 2) /etc/sysconfig/usb
>
> [sher@sher07 sher]$ cd /etc/sysconfig
> [sher@sher07 sysconfig]$ cat usb
> USB=yes
> MOUSE=no
> KEYBOARD=no
> STORAGE=yes
> VISOR=no
> [sher@sher07 sysconfig]$
>
> 3) fstab and mtab
>
> [sher@sher07 /etc]$ cat fstab
> /dev/hda6 / ext2 defaults 1 1
> /dev/hda5 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
> none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
> /dev/hdb6 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
> /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
> /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0
> /mnt/zip /mnt/zip supermount fs=ext2,dev=/dev/sda 0 0
> /dev/hdc1 /mnt/windows vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0
> none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> /dev/hdb5 swap swap defaults 0 0
> [sher@sher07 /etc]$
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> [sher@sher07 /etc]$ cat mtab
> /dev/hda6 / ext2 rw 0 0
> none /proc proc rw 0 0
> /dev/hda5 /boot ext2 rw 0 0
> none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0
> /dev/hdb6 /home ext2 rw 0 0
> /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount rw,fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
> /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount rw,fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0
> /mnt/zip /mnt/zip supermount rw,fs=ext2,dev=/dev/sda 0 0
> /dev/hdc1 /mnt/windows vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,umask=0 0 0
> automount(pid558) /misc autofs rw,fd=8,pgrp=558,minproto=2,maxproto=4 0
> 0
> automount(pid574) /net autofs rw,fd=8,pgrp=574,minproto=2,maxproto=4 0 0
> [sher@sher07 /etc]$
>
> [sher@sher07 sher]$ cd /mnt/zip
> bash: cd: /mnt/zip: Input/output error
> [sher@sher07 sher]$
>
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> I tried changing "sda" to "sda4" in the zip line above, but it didn't
> make any difference. In fact, in the past, in my case "sda" always
> worked (provided configuration was otherwise correct) while sda4 never
> worked.
>
>
> Would really appreciate your help. Can't figure this out. During bootup,
> Linux does bring up the line "Detecting USB interface" but fails to
> detect it (big red X but no error message).
>
> Thanks so much.
>
> Benjamin
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