Thanks for your reply, I have made some small progress but my /dev/usb and /dev/scsi are blank. I'm not sure what to do now. I did discover that I was not using the USE flag usb, which I have now corrected but still no device recognition.
regards Paul On Tue 1 July 2003 13:04, Stroller wrote: > 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. -- ********** This message has been sent using GENTOO Linux and kmail ********* -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
