On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote:
Joseph,
> Although I no longer have the device in question (got pissed and gave it
> to my future bro-in-law), I have some questions that I'd like answered
> before I blow another $20-$40 on a USB PCI card.
>
I'd agree. You need to find out what happened before trying it again,
which is why you ask.:)
> I bought a rather generic (forget the brand) USB card for my box so I
> can use my scanner and web cam (currently the only two ports on my box
> are taken up by my keyboard and mouse). I figured I could just plug the
> card in, turn on the box, and kudzu would detect and help me configure
> the damn thing. Not. A. Chance. Once we got to loading modules and
> mounting drives, I got an error message stating something along the
> lines of "mount /proc/partitions: only root can mount", it'd go through
> loading some modules, then when it came to mount /, it'd drop me down to
> an error message stating I needed to enter ro maintenance mode, but that
> wouldn't work because the USB modules wouldn't load! I removed the card
> and figured, okay. Lesson learned. Uh-uh. Same problem w/o card. Wound
> up reinstalling system completely (which took about half a dozen tries
> and two days due to various errors). I tried at first to do a fresh
> install with the card. Everything seemed to have gone fine, except when
> it tried to load the modules for the card, it'd kill the module for my
> keyboard and mouse and the X Server wouldn't start! Another half a dozen
> tries later I finally have a working system w/o the USB card. The card
> supported USB 2.0.
>
> WTF happened? Does RedHat not support PCI USB cards?
>
Without more info, I'd say it was a hardware conflict. If you had
installed windows it would have done the same thing. In other words, if
the device had not worked or had been flaky I would say it was the USB
chipset. The device was causing 'other' hardware not to work properly.
How did you know which driver to load? I haven't looked at USB support is
some time, but I know of atleast 3 different chipset manufacturers (Intel,
VIA, and SIS). Different chipsets need different drivers, or atleast that
is my memory. Which PCI slot did you use? Did you try it in another? You
may want to check with the USB-linux group. Also might look at
http://www.usbman.com
They have alot of USB info. The USB-linux group is at sourceforge.
http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
Hopefully I haven't added more confusion. I know that I have several ASUS
A7V266, A7M266, and also A7M266D which have 2 or more hubs built in, I
have never had a problem, but I also have only tried to use 1 port and
that was for a mouse.
John
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