Hi guys, Have three questions.
1. I have an external usb 2.5 hdd. I have been trying to mount it in linux. The kernel seems to have detected it and all and tries to load it to /dev/sda. At this point harddrake says that it cannot recognise the partition table (i have mounted it as vfat because it is a fat32 table) and asks me whether it will rewrite the whole table, which i dont want to do, because i am afraid that i\'ll lose the data that is already stored. According to the information that i have been able to gather (And i am very new to this, so please excuse any glaring errors) the vendor name for the External Hdd as registered in /proc/bus/usb/devices is Eagle Tech USB Mass Storage. When i run dmesg, it shows me a message saying the SCSI (ioctl) returns an illegal request when a WP operation is being performed. Now when i did some googling, i found a reference in a webpage saying that i have to modify a flag in a unusualdevs.h file and the disk seems to work I am not exactly a person who sets the programming world on fire with my programming prowess, so i dont understand most of what has been discussed there. I am not even sure that is what i have to do. If somebody could help me out to get my hdd working i would be extremely obliged. My linux installation so far has been working like a dream and sometimes surpasses my windows installation in multimedia performance. I hate to think that i have to keep a windows install so that i can read from my usb disk!!! 2. How do i reorganise the modules that are started when linux boots. The thing is i have a pcmcia etherenet card which uses the 8139too.o driver. The thing is the ethernet driver first initialises before the cardbus driver of the pcmcia card starts, so i have to pop the card out of its slot and then put it back again to get it started if i try insmod 8139too for the card, it says it cannot open the file. but if i pull the card out and put it back again, it works. So i am guessing that if i reorganise the boot process the card will be configured automatically. 3. This is not exactly a big issue. I have d/l a theme for my kde desktop. It is a themerc file. I am trying to get it to install, but kthememgr says that the file does not have an rc template and does not display. It does not display the default installed themes too saying that there is no rc file. I tried executing the .kthemerc files and i dont what happened, but now there are folders bearing the names of the themes that i tried to execute, with the backgnd files and an rc file. When i tried to use that file, kthememgr does not use it. System configuration OS Mandrake Linux 9.0 No modification to the kernel Desktop KDE 3.0 (Default to the Mandrake Installs) The USB port uses an ALI driver Please forgive the verbosity of my posts Yours Dhiraj ------------------------------------------------- Sify Mail - now with Anti-virus protection powered by Trend Micro, USA. Know more at http://mail.sify.com Sify Power mail- a Premium Service from Sify Mail! know more at http://mail.sify.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open! Get cracking and register here for some mind boggling fun and the chance of winning an Apple iPod: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0031en _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
