Post your kernel logs and the other info requested in the FAQ. On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Phillip Geiger wrote:
> I can't get an external USB hard drive to work with a FC4 laptop using > a USB Cardbus PC card. The drive works fine on a different FC4 > laptop, and I didn't do anything special. > > I have a Compaq Armada M300 laptop (PII 333, 256 MB RAM) that I've > installed FC4 on. The built-in USB port is only a 1.1, so I got a > generic Cardbus PC card with two USB 2.0 ports on it. > > If I plug a camera into the PC card, it works fine - the "Import > photos from camera?" dialog pops up, and no problems occur. So the PC > card itself works, and the slot on the laptop work. > > But plugging in the hard drive does nothing. > > I even had the card inserted in the laptop with a USB hard disk > attached during the install of FC4. I expected the hard drive to be > automatically found and mounted under /media/usbdisk (which is what it > did on my less-old Dell 2650). > > But, nothing ... the drive gets power from the card (LED goes on). > Under the hardware browser's USB section, it sees: > > Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (manufacturer unknown, > driver uhci-hcd) > NEC Corporation USB (manufacturer unknown, driver ohci-hcd) > NEC Corporation USB (manufacturer unknown, driver ohci-hcd) > NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (manufacturer unknown, driver ehci-hcd) > > > FC4 didn't make /dev/sda* so I created them as root with 'mknod > /dev/sda b 8 0' and 'mknod /dev/sda1 b 8 1' etc. > > But 'fdisk -l /dev/sda' returns nothing. > > The USB 2.0 card is a "Model XWT-745" Cardbus 32-bit pc card with two > USB 2.0 ports. Searching Google for 'XWT-745' returns nothing so I > figure this is some totally generic no-name item. It's responsible for > the three NEC Corporation entries in the hardware browser though; at > least, when I yank it out, only the Intel entry remains. > > Any suggestions? The only other drive in the system is a IDE at > /dev/hda, so I assumed that the USB drive would be /dev/sda. Thanks. > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO > September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices > Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA > Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] > To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users > -- /------------------------------------+-------------------------\ |Stephen J. Gowdy | SLAC, MailStop 34, | |http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~gowdy/ | 2575 Sand Hill Road, | |http://calendar.yahoo.com/gowdy | Menlo Park CA 94025, USA | |EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Tel: +1 650 926 3144 | \------------------------------------+-------------------------/ ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ [email protected] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
