DJA wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The pc won't even see the device /dev/sda anymore.
"# fdisk /dev/sda" reports "Unable to open /dev/sda".
"mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/ipod" reports "mount: special device /dev/sda2
does not exist".
"cat /proc/bus/usb/devices" does not show it.
kudzu did not report its appearance (upon reboot).
It *is* plugged into the usb port. The ipod is charging. I switched
it to the
other usb port where the scanner was just removed from (and detected
on) but no
change (except that the scanner was no longer detected since it was
no longer
plugged in).
Why can I no longer even see the ipod out there? Is the seLinux of
fc3 somehow
getting in the way? (if fc3 even has seLinux)
Have you updated FC3 to the latest and greatest? A fully updated FC2
has problems with USB storage devices, and a virgin FC3 may not be
much better.
FC4 is _much_ better at handling hardware detection, including USB. I
would have recommended moving from RH9 directly to FC4.
I tried to on my own computer. But the install of fc4 hangs. I tried
it on two different P2 machines. Same thing on both. I have /not/
tried to install fc4 on the computer with the ipod.
I have tried to have the same version of software (as much as possible)
running on her pc and my own. Her pc is an athlon 1200MHz while mine is
a P2 350MHz. My gutted older machine is a P2 270MHz (or thereabouts).
I have not yet updated fc3 to the latest. But I will try it. I don't
have frequent access to her pc and cannot predict it. But she *is*
getting frustrated because the ipod she bought for her son over three
months ago *still* will not work with her computer. The software that
came with the ipod will not work on her whinedoze (w2k) which they never
touch otherwise anyway.
rh9 at least saw it out there, using /proc/bus/usb/devices as well as
with dmesg and fdisk and even gtkpod. The problem that precipitated the
upgrade to fc3 you ask? Even though gtkpod would successfully put music
onto the ipod, and could even play music back from the ipod, the ipod
itself, when told to play a song would play about a tenth of a second of
every song on it (with a space of about a half a second in between eash
one), lasting only a few seconds. The ipod was initially setup on a pc
with windows (of unknown version at a relative's house) and is known to
have worked. rh9 saw it and seemed to work with it until you try to
play back the music though the ipod headset (which worked with the
windows setup).
fc3 won't even see it dangling out there. It saw the scanner (via
/proc/bus/usb/devices) when the scanner was plugged in right next to the
ipod. When I moved the ipod over to where the scanner was plugged in
(and detected), /proc/bus/usb/devices *still* did not see the ipod
there. Although, later, dmesg did seem to see something happen. It
said it found a mass storage device, but did not say anything about a
mountpoint. As posted in another message (replying to Carl):
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
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