Re: USB not working, Need Help

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Date: 10/06/03

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To: "Ralph F. De Witt" <ralphdewitt@charter.net>

    On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Ralph F. De Witt wrote:

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    > On Monday 06 October 2003 01:16 am, Marshal Wong wrote:
    > > Check if /proc/bus/usb is mounted.  That maybe where KDE info center
    > > gets its information.  (I don't use KDE, so I can't really help you
    > > there).  If not, it can be mounted by "mount -t usbdevfs none
    > > /proc/bus/usb" as root.
    > This seems to be part of the problem. When I issued the mount command the
    > three USB Root hubs now show up in the KDE INfo Center. However no USB
    > devices are shown.
    >
    >
    > > also check that /dev/ and/or /dev/usb/ has the device files for your usb
    > > stuff.  (what do you have beside the scanner?)
    > The device files for the scanner are the only things in dev.
    > Besides the scanner I have a USB web camera and a three in one card reader.
    > The easiest for me to check is the scanner.
    >
    > >
    > > With xsane, check the configuration files for xsane.  They should be
    > > /etc/xsane or something like that.  You may have to edit the
    > > configuration files to point xsane in the right direction.
    > I have already edited the epson scanner config file to point to the proper USB
    > device.
    >
    > >
    > > But lets make sure that usb is up and running first before tackling
    > > xsane.  You got a USB mouse or something easy to test?
    > The easiset for me to test is the scanner.
    >
    > Some things I noticed in synaptic is that devfsd is not installed, usbmgr is
    > also not installed and could not be installed unmet dependencies. I am still
    > using the knoppix initscripts and 2.4.22 xfs kernel. I am not sure if the
    > devfsd is used.

    usbmgr depends on libc6 so which version of usbmgr did you try to install?
    apt-get install usbmgr/stable
    apt-get install usbmgr/testing
    apt-get install usbmgr/unstable
    -----------------------------------
    Running: apt-cache show usbmgr
    Package: usbmgr
    Priority: extra
    Section: admin
    Installed-Size: 168
    Maintainer: Yoshiaki Yanagihara <yochi@debian.org>
    Architecture: i386
    Version: 0.4.8-8
    Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.1-1)
    Filename: pool/main/u/usbmgr/usbmgr_0.4.8-8_i386.deb
    Size: 37612
    MD5sum: fd873c8580f9d7e9421a3951f40a30f5
    Description: User-Mode daemon which loads/unloads USB kernel modules
     When USB devices connect into or disconnect from a USB hub,
     the usbmgr works as follows, according to configuration:
     .
       a) Load and unload Linux kernel modules.
       b) Execute scripts to setup USB devices.
     .
     usbmgr is available under linux kernels having "/proc/bus/usb".

    Package: usbmgr
    Priority: extra
    Section: admin
    Installed-Size: 172
    Maintainer: Yoshiaki Yanagihara <yochi@debian.org>
    Architecture: i386
    Version: 0.4.8-5
    Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4)
    Filename: pool/main/u/usbmgr/usbmgr_0.4.8-5_i386.deb
    Size: 35934
    MD5sum: b1547e46839f7a857771a7882965f2f4
    Description: User-Mode daemon which loads/unloads USB kernel modules
     When USB devices connect into or disconnect from a USB hub,
     the usbmgr works as the following according to configuration.
     .
       a) Loads and unloads files Linux kernel modules.
       b) Execute file to setup USB devices.
     .
     usbmgr is available under linux kernel have "/proc/bus/usb". 

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