On 30/6/03 11:28 am, "Paul Stear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I may be missing something but I have been trying to get a usb storage device
> to work and to get my dv camera to work via my firewire board.
>
> Is their a how-to, user guide, instructions, etc that I can look at?
> If anyone has these items working perhaps they will be kind enough to send me
> instructions and copies of any config files.
I would have thought that this was such a common topic, that I'm surprised
that no-one else has answered this already, and I'm sorry that you've had to
wait so long for my humble reply.
I can't comment (yet) on configuring hardware, but I recently recompiled the
kernel on my Vaio C1 to support my USB flash memory drive. Formerly the USB
floppy drive worked fine, but I got errors when I tried the flash stick.
I cannot give you a precise answer as to how to fix this, because I resolved
it myself using trial & error. Currently the following items are selected in
`make menuconfig`:
- Memory Technology Device (MTD) support
- MTD partitioning & concatenating
- RAM/ROM/Flash chip drivers - lots of 'em
- Mapping drivers for chip access - none
- Self-contained MTD device drivers - lots of 'em
- NAND Flash Device Drivers - not selected
- SCSI support
- scsi disk & scsi generic selected, hardly any low-level drivers chosen
- USB Support
- USB verbose debug messages
(`tail -f syslog` when you plug the device in)
- Miscellaneous USB options - all of 'em
- USB Host Controller Drivers - all of 'em
- USB Mass Storage support - all of 'em
I think these options should be sufficient to get you up & running with USB.
My /etc/fstab now has two entries thus:
# Vaio USB floppy
/dev/sda /mnt/floppy auto user,noauto,rw 0 0
# LAKS Watch USB Flash Storage
/dev/sda1 /mnt/laks auto user,noauto,rw 0 0
Someone posted this http://cvs.gentoo.org/~spider/ URL yesterday - I seem to
recall that my flash device is FAT formatted, so of course you will also
need DOS filesystem types enabled.
I hope you find this information useful,
Stroller.
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