"I have purchased an Acer Aspire 9300 notebook and am trying to install a Debian distribution.
Sarge does not work directly because it fails to detect the hard drive at hde. Woody will install. I have managed to upgrade the Woody distribution to Sarge. I have not been able to upgrade to a 2.6 kernel. USB flash keys are not detected in any of the configurations. USB serial devices and 1284 devices are detected if they are plugged at bootup. Removal and re-insertion of these devices are detected a few times but detection eventually fails. " > You'll need to supply some more information. Try reading the Linux USB > User Guide and FAQ at http://www.linux-usb.org. If that doesn't > actually help supply the info request in the question about reporting > bugs. Hello Stephen, et. al., I re-read the USB User Guide and FAQ more carefully but still didn't find anything directly applicable to my difficulty. Further digging finds: less /proc/bus/usb/drivers producing: usbdevfs hub keyboard acm audio 96-111 hiddev hid 0-15 usblp usb_mouse usbnet serial usb-storage less /proc/bus/usb/devices produces entries for: T: bus 01 S: OHCI root hub T: prnt for pl2305, 1284 device T: serial for pl2303 device The latter two entries appear and disappear until a flash key is inserted after that they don't appear again until a re-boot. lsmod produces: sg cpuid usb-storage pl2303 belkin_sa usbserial usbnet usbmouse printer hid audio soundcore acm mousedev keybdev usbkbd input usb-ohci usbcore lspci -v | grep -i sata produces: nothing lspci produces an entry unknown mass storage controller: Texas Instruments: unknown device 803b Could the unknown TI controller be preventing SCSI devices from being found by the kernel? I discovered reading Linux Desktop Hacks ( Petreley & Bacon, O'Reilly ) that hde5 is a SATA drive. I assume that it should show up as sd(n). A Google search of, hde5 sata debian, produced hits but nothing directly USB related. The general suggestion seemed to be to compile a kernel with SCSI and SATA options. The kernel I have is 2.4.18-bf2.4. Is there any way that I can determine if it has been compiled with SCSI and SATA options? Will missing SCSI and SATA kernel options prevent a flash key from showing up in /proc/bus/usb/devices? Thanks, Paul Isaacs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Linux-usb-users@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
