usb stuff now working in Debain (Re: Debian Love)

Mike McCarty wrote:
Travis Crook wrote:

Ditto! Debian just works! I've tried a couple of other distros, and
they don't "just work".


Before we all get too syrupy here, I've posted a problem here
which never got addressed, and had another user contact me
months later with the same problem, wondering whether I
ever got Debian to work, let alone "just work".

If I install a USB mouse, then the keyboard isn't recognized
by Debian, though the BIOS recognizes it, and Windows recognizes
it, and Knoppix recognizes it, and Kanotix recognizes it,
and Puppy Linux recognizes it.

Another way in which Debian doesn't "just work" is my girlfriend's
inability to read her camera memory stick. She finally went and
got an HP printer which can read it directly without going
through the computer.

I don't recall seeing this message in the mailing list so I don't know the facts. Do you mean that her laptop doesn't recognize or see her camera? Or was she trying to read the memory stick from a card reader. I find it strange that a USB stick is not readable anytime these days. There could be a temporary problem with hal/udev but it usually gets sorted out in a few days time. What version of Debian does she have on her laptop? What kernel was she using? Was her user in the plugdev group? What message did she get in /var/log/syslog when she connected the USB stick to her laptop? What laptop was it?

Sorry for all the queries, but this info is necessary to try to sort out the problem.

->HS



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