Re: USB bus fails to see devices

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Yes, that's a possibility. However, when I connect or disconnect my
digital camera there's no message at all showing up in my
kernlog/syslog. My understanding is that udev gets a message from kernel
if the status of a device changes, and since there's no message, my
problem seems not to be at level of the udev interface file.


Well, your thinking makes sense to me, I don't see how much can
happen until the kernel sees it there.


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Does it look like the camera itself may have a hardware problem?

Well, that would be the next thing to check as you have already suggested
you will do on your wife's computer. Grasping at straws, is there any
chance this thing was mounted and just unplugged without being unmounted?
However, IIRC, you said a scanner was also not recognised and is there
anything that could have caused them both to fail at the same time?

I am not an expert in usb but I haven't thought of anything else other
than making sure you have the latest 2.6.18 kernel for etch, but if it
previously worked with the kernel you have...? Maybe we're both missing
something fundamental and someone else will see and suggest it.

Rodney

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