I don't know if your using gnome or kde, but if from the command line you'll type "mcc" followed by the enter key it will launch an appropriate configuration tool. I'm going to assume you have root access. Go to the "hardware" section and see if the USB root devices are listed. If not your having a basic detection problem. If so, then USB was recognized. Next do like the one gentleman suggested and type "service usb status" This will tell you if the USB service is loaded or not. Of course if its not then you need to start it. "service usb start"
Yes, USB is on in the bios.
The board is an Asus P3V4X.
HardDrake lists the usb controller.
The 'service usb start' command just returns to the command prompt. No message or error. Doesn't seem to do anything.
There are lots of other steps but to be quite honest, you should be having this problem. Linux detects USB quite well unless your using a really old distro or are having something strange going on. What particular USB device are you trying to find?
I'm trying to find a UPS unit with a USB connection.
Have you tried something really basic like an USB mouse? I'll help all
I'll try a USB mouse. I'll have to get back to you with the results a bit later. Thanks for the idea.
I can but this might take a while. As to sound, I'm having some issues with sound too. Sound is the most difficult thing to configure. Some folks get it perfectly right away. In fact the majority these days, but some of us don't. Try this experiment. Turn your speakers up as loud as they will go. When Linux is booting do you hear a clik? if so great. now stick a MUSIC cd, not an mp3 in and go to "multimedia" and choose the cd player. Read the interface screen carefully to make sure all the volumes are up as loud as they can go. HOPEFULLY you'll hear music. May not be very loud. I've not been able to get the other sounds to work yet, but I have a motherboard that has built in sound card and I have a MadDog 6.1 sound card as well. Asus doesn't do a good job of turning off the onboard sound in the bios. So I think that is giving me grief. I had the same problem in windows, as it detected 2 soundcards, and I just had to tell it to ignore one of them.
Don't worry about the sound for now Troy. It works. I do see some errors but it's not a big deal for now.
While XP is wonderfully simple to configure, its horrendous about blinding you from things you should/need to know. Linux is just the opposite. It makes no assumptions what-so-ever. This takes some getting used to. If you want a Linux distro that so super simplistic you seriously might try Lindows. Its gotten rave reviews. They have a CD demo version that you can download to give it a try. It might be exactly what you want.
I'm learning a lot about Linux itself by using Mandrake, and would like to stick with it rather than go to Lindows, but the demo might be fun to play around with I suppose.
I don't know how long you've been using windows, but if its been a while, you will remember how terrible windows 3.11 & 95 were. Each was dramatically better then the last but still nothing to take home to mom.
You might think of Linux the same way. Its defintely in the "windows98" area now and will soon, I would estimate by the end of the year" be in the windows ME or possible 98SE area. BUT remember, it is a SERVER type operating system first. Its only now becoming healthy and mature enough to be a desktop system. It has only been around since 94 where windows has been around since late 80's. You don't even want to know how hideasly terrible windows 1.0 and 2.0 were.
I've been around from the Windows 3.11 days, and have supported Windows in a large enterprise environment since then, up to and including Windows 2000 servers and ActiveDirectory. I'm ready for a change, to be honest, and really like what Linux has to offer.
Thanks again.
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