[SLUG] Creative Soundblaster USB and Linux
Hi, I recently bought a Creative Soundblaster USB sound adapter, for recording on my laptop (the inbuilt sound card doesn't bring the line inputs out to a connector, so it's useless for recording). Alsa recognises the device, but alsamixer shows several channels that only half make sense to me. There are two pairs of RCA connectors labelled line in and line out; and a headphone jack with a volume control. Plugging anythinginto the headphone jack seems to mute the line output. Muting either `speaker' control from alsamixer also appears to mute the line output. Also it's as if the speaker volume controls are in series for line-in. But for PCM output, speaker 1 affects output levels, but not speaker 0. When a signal is going into `line in' it appears always to be echoed to `line out' regardless of any settings other than the speaker levels. Can anyone (perhaps who has used this device under Windows) explain the controls to me? Simple mixer control 'PCM',0 Capabilities: cvolume cswitch cswitch-joined Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Capture 0 - 128 Front Left: Capture 24 [19%] [off] Front Right: Capture 24 [19%] [off] Simple mixer control 'PCM Capture Source',0 Capabilities: Mono: Simple mixer control 'PCM',1 Capabilities: cswitch cswitch-joined Capture channels: Mono Mono: Capture [off] Simple mixer control 'Mic',0 Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined cvolume pswitch pswitch-joined cswitch cswitch-joined Playback channels: Mono Capture channels: Mono Limits: Playback 0 - 255 Capture 0 - 128 Mono: Playback 0 [0%] [off] Capture 0 [0%] [on] Simple mixer control 'Auto Gain Control',0 Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Mono Mono: Playback [off] Simple mixer control 'Speaker',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 255 Front Left: Playback 196 [77%] [on] Front Right: Playback 196 [77%] [on] Simple mixer control 'Speaker',1 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 255 Front Left: Playback 190 [75%] [on] Front Right: Playback 190 [75%] [on] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Wollongong installfest
A quick report, An installfest was held at the University of Wollongong during four sessions over saturday-sunday of last week-end. The purpose was to setup student computers to replicate teh University lab computers as closely as possible. Several local volunteers, with Robert, Billy, and Jeff from SLUG helped ensure a successful linux install onto 40 student computers. Matt Palmer created custom install cds so the sessions ran smoothly. The positive results of this installfest means the student society and the IT School are looking at holding a meeting to discuss another installfest. A side benefit is the South Coast Linux User Group mailing list has doubled in size :-) And local linux users have gained experience in assisting at installfests. A big thanks to SLUG for your on going support. Regards, Ashley -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Wollongong installfest
On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 23:18 +1100, Ashley Maher wrote: The positive results of this installfest means the student society and the IT School are looking at holding a meeting to discuss another installfest. A side benefit is the South Coast Linux User Group mailing list has doubled in size :-) And local linux users have gained experience in assisting at installfests. Great work Ashley Co :) -- Cheers, Craige. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] reg exp q on eml
I have something like this in my header checks: /^Content-(Disposition|Type):\s+.+?(?:file)?name=?.+?\.(386|ad[ept]|app|as[dpx]|ba[st]|bin|btm|cab|cbt|cgi|chm|cil|cla(ss)?|cmd|cp[el]|crt|cs[chs]|cvp|dll|dot|drv|em(ai)?l|ex[_e]|fon|fxp|hlp|ht[ar]|in[fips]|isp|jar|jse?|keyreg|ksh|lib|lnk|md[abetw]|mht(m|ml)?|mp3|ms[ciopt]|nte|nws|obj|ocx|ops|ov.|pcd|pgm|pif|p[lm]|pot|prg|reg|sc[rt]|sh[bs]?|slb|smm|sys|url|vb[esx]?|vir|vmx|vxd|wm[dsz]|ws[cfh]|xms|\{[\da-f]{8}(?:-[\da-f]{4}){3}-[\da-f]{12}\})\b/ REJECT hc1 .$2 file attachment types not allowed I need to allow '.eml' files, is this the expresion that is stopping them: em(ai)?l does it mean 'eml and/or ail' ? what's an 'ail', is there such attachement ? -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] reg exp q on eml
At Tue, 22 Mar 2005 08:32:07 +1100 (EST), Voytek Eymont wrote: em(ai)?l does it mean 'eml and/or ail' ? no, that means email or eml (ie, with or without the ai) -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] external usb formatting
See if you can find the manufacturer and do a google on that. I had the misfortune to get a genentech usb-ide bridge that didn't work with some older linux kernels, but had blacklist workarounds in later ones. Also it didn't work in win xp until sp2. Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Creative Soundblaster USB and Linux
Yeah I remember looking this thing up on google, and the USB Sound Blaster thing is listed as having poor support and being flaky at best in Linux. Even if you do get it to work, the levels are horrible and the sound quality is the same. I talked to a guy who tried everything to get his USB Sound Blaster box going even recompiled the kernel wrote a custom modprobe script hacked hotplug and it was still horrible (but it worked). On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 21:01, Peter Chubb wrote: Hi, I recently bought a Creative Soundblaster USB sound adapter, for recording on my laptop (the inbuilt sound card doesn't bring the line inputs out to a connector, so it's useless for recording). Regards Richard Neal Kryten Cat: Hey, I got it! We laser our way through!? Kryten: Ah, an excellent suggestion, Sir, with just two minor drawbacks. One, we don't have a power source for the lasers, and two, we don't have any lasers. - Cat and Kryten, White Hole ( Red Dwarf ) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Creative Soundblaster USB and Linux
Richard == Richard Neal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Richard Yeah I remember looking this thing up on google, and the USB Richard Sound Blaster thing is listed as having poor support and Richard being flaky at best in Linux. Even if you do get it to work, Richard the levels are horrible and the sound quality is the same. Well it works an awful lot better than the internal card. I can actually record CD-quality sound, and it seems OK, providing I select PCM1 as the input and adjust the levels appropriately. It seems to want much higher levels, rather than the standard 600mV into 600ohms I'm used to, but it does work, has a reasonable noise floor, and the A--D converter seems reasonably linear --- good enough for my purposes. Unfortunately it doesn't have an external power supply, and filtering on the USB power supply is not quite adequate. It's OK when I'm on battery, but noisy if the laptop is plugged into the mains. And the documentation is not on the hardware, but on the windows+hardware combination, and it's useless to me. -- Dr Peter Chubb http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au peterc AT gelato.unsw.edu.au The technical we do immediately, the political takes *forever* -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] this is strating to look like hardware
More external usb adventures. As was noted yesterday there was the possability of a kernel problem with the usb. So upgrading to hoary failed. Blow away old install, fresh hoary install. Then: Tail /var/log/messages: Mar 22 10:25:06 solo usb.agent[28305]: usb-storage: loaded successfully Mar 22 10:35:42 solo -- MARK -- dmesg | grep usb usbcore: registered new driver usbfs usbcore: registered new driver hub usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage usb-storage: device found at 2 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning usb 1-2: reset full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 usb 1-2: scsi_eh_0 timed out on ep0in usb 1-2: device descriptor read/64, error -110 usb 1-2: scsi_eh_0 timed out on ep0in usb 1-2: device descriptor read/64, error -110 usb 1-2: reset full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 usb 1-2: device descriptor read/64, error -19 usb 1-2: device descriptor read/64, error -19 usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 2 usb-storage: device scan complete dmesg | grep scsi scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usb 1-2: scsi_eh_0 timed out on ep0in usb 1-2: scsi_eh_0 timed out on ep0in scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery: host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 So 2.6.10 is closer. But looking at the above I suggest I'm looking for a hardware work around if possible. I'm going to do some more googling. Suggestions greatfully appreciated.? Regards, Ashley -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] this is strating to look like hardware
On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 10:47:11AM +1100, Ashley Maher wrote: More external usb adventures. As was noted yesterday there was the possability of a kernel problem with the usb. So upgrading to hoary failed. Blow away old install, fresh hoary install. Suggestions greatfully appreciated.? You want to use the 'old, slow' USB storage access driver which will pop up thing as 'uba'. Check for CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UB in the kernel. Anand -- linux.conf.au 2005 - http://lca2005.linux.org.au/ - Birthplace of Tux April 18th to 23rd - http://lca2005.linux.org.au/ - LINUX Canberra, Australia - http://lca2005.linux.org.au/ -Get bitten! signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] external usb formatting
On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 17:21 +1100, Michael Fox wrote: If so its possible the laptop usb ports can't power it. You might need to also plug in the other cable that draws current from ps2 port. I discovered this recently when my external USB case which works fine on my Thinkpad couldn't get going on my sister's iBook. Was quite a surprise and very annoying... -- Simon Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wongy.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] this is strating to look like hardware
Hi Ashley On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Ashley Maher wrote: More external usb adventures. As was noted yesterday there was the possability of a kernel problem with the usb. So upgrading to hoary failed. Blow away old install, fresh hoary install. Then: Tail /var/log/messages: Mar 22 10:25:06 solo usb.agent[28305]: usb-storage: loaded successfully Mar 22 10:35:42 solo -- MARK -- dmesg | grep usb usbcore: registered new driver usbfs usbcore: registered new driver hub usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage usb-storage: device found at 2 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning usb 1-2: reset full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 usb 1-2: scsi_eh_0 timed out on ep0in usb 1-2: device descriptor read/64, error -110 usb 1-2: scsi_eh_0 timed out on ep0in usb 1-2: device descriptor read/64, error -110 usb 1-2: reset full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 usb 1-2: device descriptor read/64, error -19 usb 1-2: device descriptor read/64, error -19 usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 2 usb-storage: device scan complete dmesg | grep scsi scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usb 1-2: scsi_eh_0 timed out on ep0in usb 1-2: scsi_eh_0 timed out on ep0in scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery: host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 So 2.6.10 is closer. But looking at the above I suggest I'm looking for a hardware work around if possible. I'm going to do some more googling. Suggestions greatfully appreciated.? Regards, Ashley -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html Looking at linux1394.org I see something similar, however most problems there at the moment are with encolosures connected with firewire. Considering that you inclosure will use the sbp2 driver it may pay to look at http://linux1394.org/faq.php#sbp2abort and also the linux1394 mail archives http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=5389 Darren - Darren Williams dsw AT gelato.unsw.edu.au [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.gelato.unsw.edu.au -- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Firefox/Linux Article
G'day Sluggers, There's an interesting article in the Hearld on Firefox adoption and also Linux adoption at the RTA if anyone's interested. http://www.smh.com.au/news/Next/Firefox-explorers/2005/03/21/253920087.html Nice to hear a postive news story. P. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] this is strating to look like hardware
Ashley Maher wrote: More external usb adventures. err, are you trying to access something in an external USB hub? If so, does it worked plugged into the mobo sockets? Someone else has reported a problem with using usb devices in external hubs. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Computers, GIS, Printing, Publishing People without trees are like fish without clean water -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] installing linux
Although i am new to Linux thus far i quite enjoy the program however i have had some difficulty installing the full version on my clevo Pentium 4 laptop. Currently i am using a 30 day trial xandros desktop OS 2 business edition. Which works fine as does live versions and my Microsoft windows XP which i don't want to use! I have tried to install suzie, lycoris and other operating systems but without success. I belive to have configured my bio correctly but still no luck. Mostly im informed the CD is corrupted. But it works fine on other computers. Can you refer anyone who can assist me. Thank you regards, Ang __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] this is strating to look like hardware
On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 10:47:11AM +1100, Ashley Maher wrote: More external usb adventures. Try lsusb -v, and look for the idVendor, idProduct strings for your device and google for them. I found my usb disk firmware on a blacklist/workaround. Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] installing linux
ang == ang ang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ang Although i am new to Linux thus far i quite enjoy the program ang however i have had some difficulty installing the full version on ang my clevo Pentium 4 laptop. Currently i am using a 30 day trial I installed Debian on my Clevo 5600P. I had no problems. It was two years ago now, but was pretty straightforward as I recall. -- Dr Peter Chubb http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au peterc AT gelato.unsw.edu.au The technical we do immediately, the political takes *forever* -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] installing linux
On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 19:19 -0800, ang ang wrote: Although i am new to Linux thus far i quite enjoy the program however i have had some difficulty installing the full version on my clevo Pentium 4 laptop. Have you tried searching Google for your laptop? In particular check out www.linux-laptop.net and this page looks useful: http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/clevo.html Good luck! -- Simon Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wongy.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Repartitioning Dell Dimension 8300
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005, Edwin Humphries wrote: G'day all, I've just inherited a Dell Dimension 8300. It has a single 120Gb SATA drive, and I'd like to repartition with a view to dual-booting. It's got an OEM partition on the first 31 Mb of the drive. When I try to boot with the System Rescue CD (to use NTFSresize), I get an error message hda: host proected area = 1 and the boot hangs. I'm assuming that this refers to the OEM partition - is this right? How do I get the bootloader to ignore this partition? I'm not sure what the system rescue CD is but if it's trying to re-create the typical Dell setup/diagnostic partition and finding it's already there and not going any further then this is probably a good thing. What you most likely want to do is proceed merrily with your favourite Linux install but be careful to select manual partitioning options. Avoid changing the first partition, it's a DOS-FAT-12 partition in disguise so you can add it to your Linux boot loader menu (lilo, grub or other). At minimum you'll want to add say 100MB /boot, 1GB swap and the rest can be / (the root filesystem). Feel free to overwrite the MBR (Master Boot Record) with your boot loader - that shouldn't affect the partition itself. It's worth noting that should the hard drive fail Dell has (or at least did last time I looked) floppy disk images for re-creating the Setup/Diagnostic partition. You can probably perform the setup/diags from the floppies too (useful for older machines which didn't have auto HDD detection). Hmm actually I'm confusing this with some Compaq gear but I think Dell is similar. -- ---GRiP--- ** ROOM FOR RENT $120pw (neg) near Newington Shops 525/401 buses ** Electronic Hobbyist, Former Arcadia BBS nut, Occasional nudist, Linux Guru, SLUG Secretary, AUUG and Linux Australia member, Sydney Flashmobber, Tenpin Bowler, BMX rider, Walker, Raver rave music lover, Big kid that refuses to grow up. I'd make a good family pet, take me home today! Some people actually read these things it seems. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Sharing IMAP Folders
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005, Edwin Humphries wrote: We've been using Dovecot (on FC2) for a while as our IMAP server. But now we need to evolve to sharing some folders. We need to share some folders with one set of users, others with another set of users (overlapping wit the first set), and keep some folders as private. How do we do this? For it to work reliably and scalably I'd recommend setting up Cyrus-imapd. It's a bit of a learning curve and you have to do some migration but it really does offer sharing of a mailbox simultaneously among 2 or more users. Took a bit of fiddling but I have a half migrated setup. That is I have sendmail delivering to plain old mbox in /var/spool/mail (using local pine clients) and on the same server delivering to some cyrus mailboxes. I did this by creating an /etc/mail/mailertable entry for cyrus.in.emusys.com.au and using /etc/aliases to redirect some mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] My intention is to use imap folders to store emails related to orders for EverythingLinux so that for a given order we can view all correspodence that's via fax or email - we can chose to use an email client to view just the email portion and I found squirrelmail suited to my task of browsing folders. -- ---GRiP--- ** ROOM FOR RENT $120pw (neg) near Newington Shops 525/401 buses ** Electronic Hobbyist, Former Arcadia BBS nut, Occasional nudist, Linux Guru, SLUG Secretary, AUUG and Linux Australia member, Sydney Flashmobber, Tenpin Bowler, BMX rider, Walker, Raver rave music lover, Big kid that refuses to grow up. I'd make a good family pet, take me home today! Some people actually read these things it seems. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Nomination acceptance
quote(Grant Parnell); It occurred to me that I should actually formally accept the nomination for the SLUG Secretary in the upcomming election. I do accept. Just got told/reminded, I accept for the normal position. yay! -Chris -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Handling Berkeley databases
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Howard Lowndes wrote: What sort of utilities are there for handling Berkeley databases other than the db_* range. db_dump -p gives me printable output but I still get the \0d\0a coming out as such rather than as a new line, and I can't seem to get a pipe into sed to fix it. Well there's interfaces to various programming languages - such as perl-DBI (we use for MySQL but works for BDB + others). I wonder if you've tried something like db_dump -p dbname | tr -d \r db_dump -p dbname | dos2unix I guess it depends on exactly how often you get CRLF, every line, mid-row, some lines etc. Another thought is you might find you can convert to something like a TAB delimited file which may or may not help. It certainly won't if your line breaks are mid-row. -- ---GRiP--- ** ROOM FOR RENT $120pw (neg) near Newington Shops 525/401 buses ** Electronic Hobbyist, Former Arcadia BBS nut, Occasional nudist, Linux Guru, SLUG Secretary, AUUG and Linux Australia member, Sydney Flashmobber, Tenpin Bowler, BMX rider, Walker, Raver rave music lover, Big kid that refuses to grow up. I'd make a good family pet, take me home today! Some people actually read these things it seems. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] external usb formatting
Sounds like this could be a power issue. If the external device has a plug-pack option, try this with the laptop. Alternately, if you have another low power device (such as a USB key) try that, it should be the same procedure exactly. Alternately your kernel might be having trouble with the USB host adapter in general or you have mismatched USB 1.0 / 2.0 etc. My bet is still power though :-( On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Ashley Maher wrote: Michael Fox wrote: As pointed out, looks like dead disk. Try on another machine. Thanks. Tried Slackware 10 running 2.4 kernel, on a desktop. Found the device fdisk particioned it fine formatted ext3 fine. Plug back into Ubuntu on the laptop and: tail /var/log/messages: Mar 21 15:15:16 solo kernel: usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 7 Mar 21 15:15:17 solo kernel: scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Mar 21 15:15:17 solo kernel: Vendor: Genesys Model: USB to IDE Disk Rev: 0033 Mar 21 15:15:17 solo kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Mar 21 15:15:27 solo hal.hotplug[4523]: timout(1 ms) waiting for /devices/pci:00/:00:07.2/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0 Mar 21 15:15:27 solo hal.hotplug[4529]: timout(1 ms) waiting for /devices/pci:00/:00:07.2/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0/host1/1:0:0:0 Mar 21 15:15:28 solo usb.agent[4546]: usb-storage: already loaded Mar 21 15:15:37 solo scsi.agent[4550]: Attribute /sys/devices/pci:00/:00:07.2/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0/host1/1:0:0:0/type does not exist Mar 21 15:20:30 solo kernel: eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII #0 link partner capability of 01e1. Mar 21 15:38:55 solo -- MARK -- Mar 21 15:58:55 solo -- MARK -- Mar 21 16:18:55 solo -- MARK -- Mar 21 16:38:55 solo -- MARK -- dmesg | grep usb usbcore: registered new driver usbfs usbcore: registered new driver hub usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 2 usb 1-2: control timeout on ep0out usb 1-2: control timeout on ep0out usb 1-2: device not accepting address 2, error -110 usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 3 usb 1-2: control timeout on ep0out usb 1-2: control timeout on ep0out usb 1-2: device not accepting address 3, error -110 usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 4 usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage usb 1-2: reset full speed USB device using address 4 usb 1-2: control timeout on ep0out usb 1-2: control timeout on ep0out usb 1-2: device not accepting address 4, error -110 usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 4 usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 5 usb 1-2: control timeout on ep0out usb 1-2: control timeout on ep0out usb 1-2: device not accepting address 5, error -110 usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 6 usb 1-2: control timeout on ep0out usb 1-2: control timeout on ep0out usb 1-2: device not accepting address 6, error -110 usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 7 dmesg | grep scsi scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery: host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 scsi0 (0:0): rejecting I/O to offline device scsi0 (0:0): rejecting I/O to offline device scsi0 (0:0): rejecting I/O to offline device scsi0 (0:0): rejecting I/O to offline device Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Hmm this is getting interesting! The laptop is realley what I want this for. Working on the desktop is loely (it proves it works) but not what i was looking for. Ideas appreciated. Regards, Ashley -- ---GRiP--- ** ROOM FOR RENT $120pw (neg) near Newington Shops 525/401 buses ** Electronic Hobbyist, Former Arcadia BBS nut, Occasional nudist, Linux Guru, SLUG Secretary, AUUG and Linux Australia member, Sydney Flashmobber, Tenpin Bowler, BMX rider, Walker, Raver rave music lover, Big kid that refuses to grow up. I'd make a good family pet, take me home today! Some people actually read these things it seems. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html