Re: [LUG] USB problems

[PAUL SUTTON <zen14920@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah Suse + usb is a pain,  suse 9.0 worked great with my camera, both 
9.1 and 9.2 don't seem to be able to handle a usb mass storage device 
properly.  also for some reason I can no longer right click and mount 
devices, it seems that they have also altered the permissions so you 
have to be root to mount a device like a cdrom,  (it's a pain)

I have just got a copy of kanotix which is based on debian, and both the 
above work with no problem.

Not that this is much help really.

Paul



Martin White wrote:

> Hi people...
>
> I haven't really got time to go through this right now (beyond this mail), but 
> next week sometime is anyone any good with USB problems?
>
> I've just had the worst 24 hours with linux that i've had in absolutely ages 
> and i have to say it was enough to nearly throw the towel in, but thankfully 
> i've just circumnavigated the problem for now.
>
> In a nutshell, i bought an N-Gage for my birthday. Essentially though we could 
> be talking any device you like, the important bit is it uses MMC cards and i 
> needed to read and write them.
>
> Having an HP Photosmart 130 printer (with built in card reader) i failed to 
> see how this could remotely be a problem. How wrong could i be.
>
> Anyway, long story short, my shuttle has two usb ports on the front and two on 
> the back. I'm running SUSE 9.3 and in the hardware section, they appear as 
> the "usual" ohcpi and ehcpi usb devices. I think that's right, i'm not going 
> to go into the hardware tool right now to confirm as every time i do that it 
> crashes my wireless network card and i have to reboot afterwards but that's 
> another story :)
>
> SO, after a night of hair pulling, i popped to argos and bought an 8 in 1 card 
> reader this afternoon, but the thing STILL wouldn't work, i just got a load 
> of errors in /var/log/messages when i plugged it in, same as i was doing with 
> the printer last night.
>
> Not knowing what else to try i remembered that my flat panel screen has a two 
> port hub built into it so plugged that in. This came up as a different kind 
> of usb port (tusb2056 i think) and when plugged into that the card reader 
> works a treat. I'm pretty much willing to bet that the printer's card reader 
> would do too if i tried! (Oh well!)
>
> So, for now i need to crack on with what i was doing, i've wasted FAR too much 
> time just getting something trivial to work but maybe later on in the week i 
> would love to be able to diagnose the errors and get all the other ports 
> working properly too (if possible).
>
> I'm having a couple of other issues with SUSE too, but mostly unrelated so 
> maybe i'll start another thread when i have more time...
>
> Thanks for reading :)
>
> Martin.
>  


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