On May 3, 2004 23:03, Marc Lijour wrote: ... > > > I have a bacpack (MIcrosolution) cdwriter. It was working in 9.2. > > > I used to insmod the following modules in this order to have it > > > working: bpck6 (driver) > > > pcd (parallel port connection, which is used to connect the cdwriter) > > > pg (scsi emulation) > > > > > > Then I could see it with cdrecord -scanbus, mount it, and use it. > > > > > > > > > With 10.0 it does not work this way. > > > My loaded modules are: > > > > ... > > > > > ----------- end ------------------- > > > > > > Please, I would need some help to make it work with kernel 2.6. > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Marc > > > > Hey, a fellow backpacker! I'm using the USB interface, though, so it > > might be different with the parallel port. > > > > I downloaded the driver from: > > > > http://www.micro-solutions.com/software_library/linux/index3.html > > > > I started with 10.0 CE and never did get it working there. Hoped 10.0 > > Official would fix the problem but it didn't. > > > > After a lot of mucking around, I discovered that the fxload program is > > missing from the Mandrake 10 distro, even though it's part of the Linux > > Hotplug project on SourceForge. This program is responsible for > > downloading new firmware to the drive to make it talk to Linux properly. > > > > Check in /var/log/messages to see if there's a message saying that fxload > > is missing. If so, download it from: > > > > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=17679 > > Nice to meet you. Not many of us around here!
Yeah, maybe that's why they don't bother to include fxload on the CDs. > I found it on the Mandrake mirrors: > <http://gulus.usherb.ca/pub/distro/Mandrakelinux/devel/10.0/contrib/i586/fx >load-2002_04_11-2mdk.i586.rpm> > > My question would be, where does your drive appear in /dev? How do you > mount it? And then, why does it stopped working for me with the parallel > port.. ... Mine appeared as /dev/scd0, which is a link to scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd (I sent a message the other day about these device assignments, because they don't match with what the various cd writing programs expect, and I'm not sure what to do about this; haven't seen any replies though). I don't have to mount or unmount it. With hotplug working, the device appears when I plug it in, and disappears when I unplug it. When I insert a cd, magicdev takes over to automount it for me. But this is all through the USB interface. I didn't try the parallel port (though if I get the time I might, as I have more USB devices than I have available ports, and my parallel port is empty). Have you tried it through USB? I never used Mandrake 9, so I don't know what changed to break this. But it seems from the messages on this list that quite a few things broke from 9 to 10. I don't know whether that's issues with the new kernel or what the story is. -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to use these opinions are granted under the GNU GPL.
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