A couple of years ago, I would sometimes find it helpful to see what shows up in dmesg when the USB device is plugged in.
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Norm Matloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a friend who is new to Linux. He's sworn off Windows, which is > great, but a bit of a risk since he's not a techie (though he's very > sharp). He's using Linux Mint, a derivative of Ubuntu. > > It's going great except he cannot get his USB portable disk drive to > work. It simply will not show up, using df, lsusb etc. and mounting by > hand failed too. His other USB devices (memory sticks, camera > connection etc.) work fine, and the portable disk drive works find under > XP. > > Any suggestions? > > Norm > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
