Re: kernel prbs w/ext USB equip

On Friday 17 March 2006 17:20, C Hamel wrote:
On Friday 17 March 2006 05:17, Alan McKinnon wrote:
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I'd say the first step is to turn debug logging on - I see it's
disabled in the standard .config. First option below USB mass
storage support. Hopefully you will get the identical behaviour
and also an explanation in the logs.

I guess I'll have to roll my own kernel, then. I had thought of
compiling usb_storage into the kernel so it wouldn't be unloaded,
but I need the build tools. I read somewhere on this list that
'apt-get install build-essentials' will set me up but since I get a
'pkg not found' (or whatever the error is) I can only surmise I
need a new line in my sources.list and would appreciate someone
enlightening me as to what that line is.

It'll be a regular repository such as ubuntu.archive.com activate it
from synaptic. Installing build-essentials is a good thing to do as a
matter of routine, and to compile a kernel you'll need gcc 3.4 or
whatever the current version is. The rest of the distro is compiled
with gcc 4, don't try compile a kernel with it, it is unlikely to
work. I don't do any compiling on Ubuntu so I don't know the package
names off-hand but synaptic will find them

I'm not familiar with that device, what other modules does it
load? grepping the kernel source doesn't return anything useful,
and because everything else seems to work for you that indicates
the problem is local to that model and/or it's drivers.

As far as I am able to determine the usb_storage module is the only
one loaded. Apparently everything else --if it needs anything
else-- is either already loaded on boot-up or is compiled into the
kernel.

I fear you will coaster a few more blanks before this is over,
put it down to your personal contribution to the revolution :-)

I don't mind a couple coasters if I know progress is being made.
K3b, however, seems to be notorious for telling me a particular
error is 'not necessarily serious' and then turning that media into
a coaster 100% of the time. It also sits back and grins as I
change from DAO to TAO --at its advising-- and then commences to
turn yet one more medium into a coaster. K3b still is one of the
better tools I have used, so I keep using it.

You'll be better off using command line tools like cdrecord while
debugging this, to be able to see error messages as they happen. k3b
is a fine product but like all gui tools it can insulate you from
what is actually happening


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