Re: linux USB question

From: Rev Turd Fredericks (turdfred2*dont5p4mm3*_at_catholic.org)
Date: 02/24/04 

Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 07:13:32 GMT

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 06:59:24 +0000, Darchon wrote:

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>
> --
> The only rules that really matter are these: What a man CAN do, and what a
> man CAN'T do!
>
>
> "Darchon" <krpdm2112@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:LpC_b.749$Be5.279064648@newssvr11.news.prodigy.com...
>>
>>
>> "Rev Turd Fredericks" <turdfred2*dont5p4mm3*@catholic.org> wrote in
> message
>> news:pan.2004.02.24.06.34.14.450605@catholic.org...
>> > 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
>> --
>> The only rules that really matter are these: What a man CAN do, and what a
>> man CAN'T do!
>>
>>
>
> Oh, and you might try alt.linux or alt.linux.redhat
> Sir Darchon
Heh. I figure if the problem has an easy solution, somebody here will
know, and if the solution isn't easy, I probably don't have the skill to
implement it (yet). 

-- 
Never underestimate the power of a free hat.
-Eric Cartman (South Park)