On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Isaacs wrote: > "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.
Why not? > 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. " What shows up in the dmesg log when you plug in a USB flash device? > > 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 doubt it. More likely it's a PCMCIA controller or something similar. > 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? As fas as I know, 2.4 doesn't include any support for SATA at all. Even if I'm wrong, support probably wasn't added until long after 2.4.18. > Will missing SCSI and SATA kernel options prevent a flash key from > showing up in /proc/bus/usb/devices? SATA has nothing to do with it. Missing SCSI kernel options could have that effect. Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
