Re: linux USB question

From: Darchon (krpdm2112_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 02/24/04

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"Darchon" <krpdm2112@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Rev Turd Fredericks" <turdfred2*dont5p4mm3*@catholic.org> wrote in
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> > On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 06:00:35 +0000, Iceman wrote:
> >
> > > Rev Turd Fredericks wrote:
> > >
> > >> On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 04:41:41 +0000, Iceman wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 01:11:41 GMT, Rev Turd Fredericks wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>> I have a rather complex question to ask of anybody that might know.
> > >>>> Believe me, I've done my research on this one, probably 40+ hours
of
> > >>>> reading and googling and am about to give up :-( For all the
whiners
> > >>>> and crack beggars out there I believe this is an example of a
> > >>>> "hacking" questionto ask in here. I tried really hard to solve this
> > >>>> on my own, but now I need some help from the experts :-)
> > >>>
> > >>> <massive snip>
> > >>>
> > >>> Rev have you tried a Knoppix Live CD on your computer. I know it
> > >>> picks up USB and mem sticks. There are some known issues with some
> > >>> sticks that do USB 1 and 2 as well with via chipsets. A lot of this
> > >>> has been resolved with the new kernel.
> > >>>
> > >>> Knoppix wont mess with your system.
> > >>
> > >> I haven't tried knoppix, but I've heard good things about it though.
> > >> My issue though is really that nothing works on the usb card not just
> > >> the memsticks. I found the simple solution to most usb memstick/linux
> > >> problems is simply to use linux to format them in your flavor of
> > >> choice. I spent hours of reading trying to get my flash drive working
> > >> and then out of frustration I formatted it vfat in linux and it's
> > >> worked ever since :-)
> > >>
> > > For some reason I missed that it was on a card. I remember reading in
> > > the updates of the kernel something about the problems with them and
> > > what affects them. Wish I could remember, it was something akin to
> > > using a USB Hub and unreliable addressing/connections. I think it was
> > > fairly well sorted out by the 2.6.3 kernel.  There may well be a back
> > > port for this as well I'm not sure. All I know is I am waiting for an
> > > up to date distro with the latest everything. Mainly because I'm too
> > > lazy to hand configure everything. (or I just don't have the time to
> > > hand roll everything.) I'm about half way through making a bootable
mem
> > > stick config but that got shelved for a while. :(
> >
> > I think that Fedora core*2* might include the 2.6 kernel, it's due out
in
> > April I think. I didn't have to do that much to get Fedora configured,
it
> > was when I got "cocky" and decided to upgrade some of my stuff :-( I was
> > so happy when Fedora breathed new life into my now 3+ year old machine
> > that I decided to bring the machine a little more up to date (100 gigbit
> > networking, usb2 etc.). I had never had problems adding things to this
> > machine before and the PCI slot problem threw me for a loop (it really
> > had nothing to do with linux). I know I'll get he usb 2 card working
> > eventually. I was actually hoping somebody in here had perhaps had the
> > same problem and would say "Oh yeah, you have to put line xxx in the
> > blahblah.conf" or something. I have done more reading to try to fix this
> > problem and learned more about linux configuration in general that
despite
> > my failure to solve the problem I am probably better off for the
> > experience.
> >
> > -- 
> > Never underestimate the power of a free hat.
> >
> > -Eric Cartman (South Park)
> >
>
> Might as well go ahead and try to configure a 2.6 kernel.  While I havn't
> touched 2.6 yet,  I don't think it would be much harder to config then
it's
> predecessors.  And if it doesn't work out for you, you can always just use
> your old kernel.  (Just make sure you don't overwrite it, might have to
> rename your old kernel or something)
>
> Sir Darchon
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> The only rules that really matter are these: What a man CAN do, and what a
> man CAN'T do!
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Oh, and you might try alt.linux or alt.linux.redhat
Sir Darchon
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The only rules that really matter are these: What a man CAN do, and what a
man CAN'T do!
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