Sounds good to me... after all, you've got all the sources you could possibly need (:
Steve On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:25:37 +1300 (NZDT) Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I got a DSE USB2 PCI (xh9738) card on Saturday and installed it in the St > Albans linux repository machine in the hop that people will be able to > take their external hard drives or flash drives in and take a copy of what > they want. > > There have been a few problems with it though. We kept getting this > message with one of Raffael's external hard drives: > > [ 261.828000] hub 1-0:1.0: connect-debounce failed, port 4 disabled > > (The hub and port numbers were variable) > > This seems to be an oft reported bug in various distros, with no firm > fixes. Suggestions ranged from "report it on the kernel mailing list" to > "update your kernel" to "it worked fine after a reboot". > > However I suspect that a kernel update may help, and is unlikely to cause > harm. The St Albans machine seems to be unmaintained (or Mandriva is > woefully behind the 8 ball in kernel versions!). Its the first time I have > used or even seen it. > > Also the lack of a root password inhibited some debugging, along with the > lackof some basic utilities like lsusb (or perhaps its only available to > the root user). Thankfully lspci was usable. > > How about a more modern distro on this machine? > -- > Nick Rout >
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