Hi,

oohps half way there, device shows up in menu but doesn't get mounted
automaticly. Gonna look a bit further into it.


     /Robert

Friday, April 30, 2004, 11:05:21 AM, Robert wrote:

> Hi,

> Duh, a search through /proc/bus/usb/devices revealed the culprit.

> Found the problem in misc.py line 300

> if line.lower().find('mass storage') != -1:

> should be

> if line.lower().find('storage') != -1:

> Probably kernel 2.4 and 2.6 usb/mass storage module naming is
> different. A find for 'storage' is enough to get it going for both
> modules

> my cat /proc/bus/usb/devices

> If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=08(stor.) Sub=ff Prot=01 Driver=usb-storage

> Or changing back to usb_id as an identifier is maybe a better solution
> if one has multiple usb-storage devices.


>      /Robert 

> Wednesday, April 28, 2004, 7:11:59 PM, Robert wrote:

>> Mick,

>> Sorry no i didn't wrote this stuff but last week i did give it another
>> try, but as i replied earlier i couldn't make it work also. What i
>> recall it did work somewhere last august, september. Early this year
>> camera.py changed into usbstorage.py but from what i can see in CVS
>> nothing changed substantially when doing a diff. The mounting and
>> making the mounted dir visible is indeed hacked away somewhere in the
>> process..

>> So imo there are two options:

>> - Find a freevo tarball from august, september last year and debug it
>> with this code. Problem is i can't find any freevo tarball < 1.4 . If
>> someone can point me to it ? (complete tarball is bit easier then
>> browsing cvs, i think)

>> - as dischi stated earlier this week devel is a bit slow now and if
>> you doesn't want it to be buried in this list file it as a bug report.
>> Haven't got the time to this myself right know because i have to leave i
>> a few secs.



>>      /Robert 

>> Wednesday, April 28, 2004, 6:29:08 AM, Mick wrote:

>>> Hi Robert.

>>> I tried the best I could, and I cannot get this going...

>>> Did you write the plugin?  I think wether or not the directory is
>>> mounting is relavtily easy to fix, the problem is making the directoy
>>> visible in freevo only when the device is available..  This part of the
>>> code I simply connot reverse engineer.  To be honest, it looks like this
>>> part of the code does not exist..  It seems so simple i'm a little bit
>>> peaved I can't work out whats going on..

>>> Maybe it is something inferred by something else.. Like the Dir item..
>>> In any case i can only appoligise for being stupid..  But can someone
>>> help me with this?

>>> Mick
>>> On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 02:49, Robert Winder wrote:
>>>> Tuesday, April 20, 2004, 5:01:50 PM, Dirk wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> > Mick wrote:
>>>> >> Dischi,
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Can you please explain to me how usbtorage.py is meant to funtion with
>>>> >> refference to usb.py?
>>>> 
>>>> > No, I didn't wrote usbtorage.py. I can only say that usb.py will force
>>>> > a menu rebuild when you add/remove usb devices. 
>>>> 
>>>> >> I can't see any refference to calling mount or umount..  I'm happy to
>>>> >> make this my first contribution, but need your advice as to how its
>>>> >> meant to work..
>>>> 
>>>> > It should mount. If it doesn't, it's a bug. Maybe the guy who wrote it
>>>> > used an automounter.
>>>> 
>>>> It doesn't.. so it's a bug then. Strange thing is i got it working with
>>>> camera.py a while ago without using automount. And usbstorage.py is
>>>> basicly the same code as camera.py was. Not sure where it goes wrong
>>>> but i look into it and i'll try to find out what the diff is. Probably
>>>> tomorrow.
>>>> 
>>>> >> Its such a simple process that I don't see the need to patch a
>>>> >> kernel or install another dependancy to get it going..
>>>> 
>>>> > It should work using mount and umount.
>>>> 
>>>> What i meant was that for usb storage devices some kernelside options
>>>> are needed. In other words make sure if USB mounting works outside
>>>> freevo.  :-) But we probably passed that stage.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> /Robert
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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