Dear friends:
For the life of me I couldn't figure out why my USB zip, which had been
configured flawlessly during every previous reinstall of LM72, would go
haywire with lots of error messages during bootup, messages which made
no sense.
I finally discovered the answer when I went into Win98 (I have a
dual-boot system). To my astonishment I discovered that my USB zip
wasn't working in Win either. I put 2 and 2 together and finally, after
several trials and experiments, and after reading Ipmega's documentation
(RTFM), I went into the Bios and discovered that somehow, inadvertently,
due to the installation of Internet Sharing, the USB option was disabled
in the Chipset section of the Bios, something I had never looked at
before.
I enabled USB (and Keyboard Access to the USB), and instantly the USB
zip came to life both in Windows (which immediately recognized it and
found the driver for it after reboot) and in Linux, where the boot error
messages immediately disappeared and where USB interface and USB Storage
were immediately recognized. And I have now been living happily ever
after.
But who could have guessed that the answer would be hidden in an entry
of the Bios that I never even looked at before. Shows you that a
modification in one area has repercussions elsewhere.
Well, I am now happy to report that Internet Sharing works and is a real
treat.
Thanks for troubling the list with this. It was a real mystery.
Benjamin
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Benjamin and Anna Sher
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