Hello All, Just thought I would give my upgrade experience. It was horrible. The DVD/CD situation is not right. Packages are missing on the CD's. My server (Dell Poweredge 2600) does not have a DVD, so I did my usual upgrade not thinking anything, well upgrade went along, a couple of errors and I got a list of packages to remove, I scanned through them, pushed okay, I didn't see anything that I didn't mind losing. Well after upgrade, Cyrus IMAP was not there! It installed WU-IMAP! WTF I thought, then I noticed CLAM-AV was gone...amavis...etc. I looked on the CD's. Not there. Mounted DVD on laptop and reinstalled...now Cyrus has DBERROR and won't run! Ack...DLT is broken, I am up poo-poo creek now! Mail configuration is all jumbled, reconfigured, can't connect to LMTP socket....ack! Well after 5 hours everything is back up...without amavis. If this is the way Novell is going to take SuSE....I think my next stop might be Debian. I have been running SuSe since the 5.x series, and I always buy the boxed set. I have upgraded various times, and only do clean installs on big changes. This is by far the worst update I have done. I am scared now to do an upgrade. I almost lost 4 years of mail. That would have really made my weekend! I was all excited last night when I got my boxed set at Fry's Electronics...yeah...upgrade time...new..new..new....BOOM! Here is more broken stuff...I did the Multimedia update...NO MP3 now, also USB is not working...I have a DVD/CDRW that I bought for my server, which worked under 9.2, now USB keyboard and mouse don't work, along with Sony USB DVD/CDRW. Very disappointed. Novell better let the folks from Germany do the work. Becuase 9.3 has some issues. Hope this doesn't sound too incoherent...rather frustrated and tired. Need some more coffee. -- .~. | /V\ | Robert Sweet // \\ | Systems Administration and Installation /( )\ | www.garagenetworks.net ^^-^^ | 714.596.5504 Cel. 714.728.0014 Linux |
Robert, On Saturday 23 April 2005 11:24, Robert Sweet wrote:
Hello All,
Just thought I would give my upgrade experience. It was horrible. The DVD/CD situation is not right. Packages are missing on the CD's.
As it has been for at least the last few releases containing both DVD and CD meida.
... If this is the way Novell is going to take SuSE....I think my next stop might be Debian.
Good luck with that. I'm sure it's utterly foolproof. At least you won't have to worry about having the latest versions of anything.
I have been running SuSe since the 5.x series, and I always buy the boxed set. I have upgraded various times, and only do clean installs on big changes. This is by far the worst update I have done. I am scared now to do an upgrade.
Live and learn. At best. Cautious users don't do upgrades. It's always more risky than a clean install.
I almost lost 4 years of mail.
Implying that this mail it is not backed up. As long as that's so, you can rest assured that eventually you _will_ lose it.
That would have really made my weekend! I was all excited last night when I got my boxed set at Fry's Electronics...yeah...upgrade time...new..new..new....BOOM!
Here is more broken stuff...I did the Multimedia update...NO MP3 now,
You're really not paying attention, either here on the list or to the updates offered during the installation process.
also USB is not working...I have a DVD/CDRW that I bought for my server, which worked under 9.2, now USB keyboard and mouse don't work, along with Sony USB DVD/CDRW. Very disappointed. Novell better let the folks from Germany do the work. Becuase 9.3 has some issues. Hope this doesn't sound too incoherent...rather frustrated and tired. Need some more coffee.
I don't believe there have been any large-scale staffing changes. Novell bought the company, they didn't replace the personnel.
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Do I take it you're paid to do system administration? If so, you really should know better. You especially ought to know enough to keep backups of any critical data... Randall Schulz
On Sat April 23 2005 2:59 pm, Randall R Schulz wrote: [snip]
Do I take it you're paid to do system administration? If so, you really should know better. You especially ought to know enough to keep backups of any critical data.
QUITE right! I did backup here before doing the upgrade, which went well! My only real complaint, and I can't blame SUSE for it, is that my Palm won't sync. with this PC......9.2 did, although very little data would be exchanged. When I get time, I'll spend more time on that and see if I can get it to work. Fred -- The only bug free software from MickySoft is still shrink-wrapped in their warehouse..."
On Saturday April 23 2005 1:59 pm, Fred A. Miller wrote:
On Sat April 23 2005 2:59 pm, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Fred, this was on the [kdepim-users list] Rich If you do not own a Palm OS device, or don't use kpilot, or don't use kaddressbook, or do but like surprises, you can ignore this message and carry on with your day.... If, however, you do, please read on. I need your help. =:) I've just committed code that hopefully fixes 2 really annoying buglets (103335 and 56364) to kpilot, HEAD branch. These darling buglets were causing all entries in a given contact other than the primary e-mail address or phone number per type to be lost when syncing. In other words, if you had 2 e-mail addresses or mobile phone numbers in kabc, when it was synced with kpilot, we threw one of each away, which was not very nice. The reason I'm asking for your help, oh dear user of kaddressbook and kpilot, is that I'd like your help in making sure that these bugs are indeed squashed dead, and that I've not caused any interesting, undesirable "features" as a result. The only caveat to this whole deal is this... Before my changes, kpilot only synced the first of each type of phone number or e-mail address between kaddressbook and the Pilot. It now syncs as many of each type of thing that you put into either side, up to 5. =:/ The problem is that the Pilot can only store 5 "phone numbers"--and "phone numbers" here also means "e-mail addresses". So if you have a contact with 3 e-mail addresses, and a home phone and a work phone, then all will be fine and dandy when you sync between your Pilot and kaddressbook (3+1+1==5). However, if you have a contact in kaddressbook that you've stored 3 e-mail addresses, 2 home phone numbers, 2 mobile phone numbers, 4 fax numbers, etc., and then sync that contact with your Pilot, you will find that your e-mail addresses will be given precedence and will make it, but only 2 of your other 7 phone numbers will survive the sync. I believe that this is to be expected, and don't expect anyone to balk at it, but I wanted to make sure it was said clearly so there are no surprises. So if you use kpilot and kaddressbook, please update from CVS HEAD, compile, install, etc., and test this when you get a chance and please let me know if you find anything awry. Thanks!! =:) -- Rich Matson Reno, Nv. USA
On Sat April 23 2005 8:21 pm, C. Richard Matson wrote:
On Saturday April 23 2005 1:59 pm, Fred A. Miller wrote:
On Sat April 23 2005 2:59 pm, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Fred, this was on the [kdepim-users list] Rich
If you do not own a Palm OS device, or don't use kpilot, or don't use kaddressbook, or do but like surprises, you can ignore this message and carry on with your day....
If, however, you do, please read on. I need your help. =:)
Ok....thanks! Fred -- The only bug free software from MickySoft is still shrink-wrapped in their warehouse..."
On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:24:50 -0700, you wrote:
Hello All,
Just thought I would give my upgrade experience. It was horrible. The DVD/CD situation is not right. Packages are missing on the CD's. My server (Dell Poweredge 2600) does
[snippage] Next time, pay a bit of attention to what's going on in the world. As far back as I know of (I started using SuSE at 9.0) things have been on the dvd that weren't on the CDs. As far back as 1988 or so, upgrading any (ANY) operating system has been a bad idea. Do a clean install. If you don't want to do it, you don't get to complain about the results. OS/2, windows, linux, hell - even DOS 5 and up suggested a clean install rather than an update. As for the MP3 complaints - been made before, fixes have been explained a dozen times already. If you pay attention to what you're doing, there are no problems. NEXT! Mike- -- Mornings: Evolution in action. Only the grumpy will survive. -- Please note - Due to the intense volume of spam, we have installed site-wide spam filters at catherders.com. If email from you bounces, try non-HTML, non-encoded, non-attachments.
Hello All,
Just thought I would give my upgrade experience. It was horrible. The DVD/CD situation is not right. Packages are missing on the CD's. My server (Dell Poweredge 2600) does not have a DVD, so I did my usual upgrade not thinking anything, well upgrade went along, a couple of errors and I got a list of packages to remove, I scanned through them, pushed okay, I didn't see anything that I didn't mind losing. Well after upgrade, Cyrus IMAP was not there! It installed WU-IMAP! WTF I thought, then I noticed CLAM-AV was gone...amavis...etc. I looked on the CD's. Not there. Mounted DVD on laptop and reinstalled...now Cyrus has DBERROR and won't run! Ack...DLT is broken, I am up poo-poo creek now! Mail configuration is all jumbled, reconfigured, can't connect to LMTP socket....ack! Well after 5 hours everything is back up...without amavis. If this is the way Novell is going to take SuSE....I think my next stop might be Debian. I have been running SuSe since the 5.x series, and I always buy the boxed set. I have upgraded various times, and only do clean installs on big changes. This is by far the worst update I have done. I am scared now to do an upgrade. I almost lost 4 years of mail. That would have really made my weekend! I was all excited last night when I got my boxed set at Fry's Electronics...yeah...upgrade time...new..new..new....BOOM! This is because not all of the software is on the CDs, it won't fit. Why SuSE doesn't include a sixth cd is beyond me. Surely they must realize
On Sat, 2005-04-23 at 11:24 -0700, Robert Sweet wrote: that a lot of people install the PRO version on servers that don't come with a DVD and need the software that is missing. Your only recourse is to set up the DVD on another machine that has a DVD and share it as an ftp source or copy the contents to the server and add it that way. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge
Surely they must realize that a lot of people install the PRO version on servers that don't come with a DVD and need the software that is missing. Your only recourse is to set up the DVD on another machine that has a DVD and share it as an ftp source or copy the contents to the server and add it that way.
As you are installing on a lan then surely you must have at least one DVD installed on a client. They cost less than 40 euros here in Spain. 20 from the back of a lorry. Mount that and use the fast and furious nfs install. Or am I missing the thread here? Steve.
On Saturday 23 April 2005 20:24, Robert Sweet wrote:
Novell better let the folks from Germany do the work.
They are. Where have you been the last 10 years? Upgrades have always been dodgy. Upgrading 3000 packages is a very tricky thing As for your problem, check which modules are loaded. I haven't seen a system with this problem, so I can't confirm it, but I have heard rumours about system upgrades that resulted in systems that didn't load modules properly afterwards
On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 09:31:42PM +0200, Anders Johansson Wrote:
On Saturday 23 April 2005 20:24, Robert Sweet wrote:
Novell better let the folks from Germany do the work.
They are.
Where have you been the last 10 years? Upgrades have always been dodgy. Upgrading 3000 packages is a very tricky thing
As for your problem, check which modules are loaded. I haven't seen a system with this problem, so I can't confirm it, but I have heard rumours about system upgrades that resulted in systems that didn't load modules properly afterwards
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1. Did the 1-5 Multimedia Updates....xmms does not play MP3...inconsequential. 2. Yes, I know about backups...DLT has a problem right now, so I took a risk, and it is okay now, cyrus is back up and running, fixed DBERROR. Still have mail :) 3. I have done upgrades before without a problem, lucky? Maybe so, but then again why have an upgrade path? Clean installs are not always the most practical. But not a big deal. Well I guess, I just have never seen a upgrade go so bad before. I prolly won't be upgrading for a while, might just put Enterprise on it and leave it alone. Sad thing is I like the latest...just don't want to have to reconfigure everything for clean install. Guess I should have not said anything seeing all I got was flamed...just trying to alert people that this was not a smooth upgrade. I do have a USB DVD +/-, which I bought mainly so I can read the SuSE DVD's, the only problem is you cannot install from it. The upgrade broke something in the USB too. It has not been until the last two releases or so that there are so many missing packages on the CD's, at least that have affected my systems. I can live with installing Enlightenment after the core system is installed, but I would not expect Cyrus-Imap to be on the DVD, while Cyrus-sasl is on the CD, that just doesn't make sense. Anyway everything is better now, sorry if I offended anyone with the Novell/SuSE comment, SuSE just seemed more solid before...hey I could update from GWDG before, but since 9.2, someone decided that wasn't an option (a little manual intervention changed that though), thus my sentiments that Novell was more in charge now...I would rather be able to pick from any mirrors, not just U.S. ones. Sorry for the morning bitch session, everything is hunky dorey now.
On 4/23/05, Robert Sweet
2. Yes, I know about backups...DLT has a problem right now, so I took a risk, and it is okay now, cyrus is back up and running, fixed DBERROR. Still have mail :)
Hi Robert. I have no doubt at all that your knowledge of computing is way, way in front of mine. But, perhaps I have the edge on wisdom :-) ? It has been said by others but the mantra is surely 'backup, backup, backup, must do backup'. I learned my lesson and I only run a home PC. Now I tend to get everything set up as I want than back it up before anything else is added. Then, any files that are important I back up separately onto CD or removable/external hard drive. You "took a risk"? Hmmmm, not good for a sys admin to do this really on a live running system :-) After all, it's you job on the line, your income, your bread and butter.
3. I have done upgrades before without a problem, lucky? Maybe so, but then again why have an upgrade path? Clean installs are not always the most practical. But not a big deal. Well I guess, I just have never seen a upgrade go so bad before. I prolly won't be upgrading for a while, might just put Enterprise on it and leave it alone. Sad thing is I like the latest...just don't want to have to reconfigure everything for clean install.
I do partially agree with what you are getting at there. I personally think that there should be a stronger warning about the pitfalls of upgrading over clean installs. I realise (correct me if I'm wrong) that sometimes apps don't work with the latest lib files. I've also noticed that SuSE tends to change paths sometimes. Sublte they may be, but it can sometimes break things. Anyway, look on the bright side, you've learned a valuable lesson. Be humble and accept it and you will be a far better sys admin today than you were yesterday. Sorry if it's come out patronising, it's really not meant to be. Check my second sentence ;-) -- Take care. Kevan Farmer 34 Hill Street Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 01:02:08PM +0100, Kevanf1 Wrote:
Hi Robert. I have no doubt at all that your knowledge of computing is way, way in front of mine. But, perhaps I have the edge on wisdom :-) ? It has been said by others but the mantra is surely 'backup, backup, backup, must do backup'. I learned my lesson and I only run a home PC. Now I tend to get everything set up as I want than back it up before anything else is added. Then, any files that are important I back up separately onto CD or removable/external hard drive. You "took a risk"? Hmmmm, not good for a sys admin to do this really on a live running system :-) After all, it's you job on the line, your income, your bread and butter.
Kevan, I do have back ups...restore would not have been "convenient" due to my DLT acting flakey at the moment. This is my own box. I would not have done this with someone else's box. I got everything working, reinstalled cyrus and fixed my DBERROR. The thing that bothers me is by the time 9.4 or 10 comes out you won't even be able to use the CD's. Most servers only have cdroms, so then what do you? Like me I had to smb mount my DVD to install packages. What would you do, say if you didn't have a DVD and needed package XXXX? And I don't mean a Windowmanager or games, I mean necessary rpm's. Basically my point is that cdroms have become obsolete for an upgrade path, or maybe I am missing a trick? The usb was broken due to uhci ohci modules not being loaded. I manually loaded them, so I am back up and running 100%. I have done upgrades in the past, no problems. We could go on and on about upgrade vs. install. The thing is I love linux and I have always purchased the latest SuSE (started with slackware--->Caldera--->Redhat--->SuSE) to contribute to the Linux community, but if my option is clean install every 6 months, I won't be rushing out to get the latest. A clean install is much more intensive than an upgrade, which SuSE has been pretty flawless in. I do clean installs when there are big changes, like the 2.4 to 2.6 migration. I would not have thought that the 5 cd's vs 1 DVD would have become as fragmented as it is, I definately will be more cautious next time. Sad thing is I like mucking around with all the new things, so I can't say I won't be tempted. I just should not have down a 10:00 pm upgrade, nor should I have posted my frustation to the list.
I do partially agree with what you are getting at there. I personally think that there should be a stronger warning about the pitfalls of upgrading over clean installs. I realise (correct me if I'm wrong) that sometimes apps don't work with the latest lib files. I've also noticed that SuSE tends to change paths sometimes. Sublte they may be, but it can sometimes break things.
Anyway, look on the bright side, you've learned a valuable lesson. Be humble and accept it and you will be a far better sys admin today than you were yesterday.
Sorry if it's come out patronising, it's really not meant to be. Check my second sentence ;-)
-- Take care. Kevan Farmer
34 Hill Street Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR
What you have said is not offensive or patronising. I got blasted from some others, but I left my self open and I know better, as my friend said yesterday, everyone gets flamed sometime. I deserved it.
On 4/24/05, Robert Sweet
What you have said is not offensive or patronising. I got blasted from some others, but I left my self open and I know better, as my friend said yesterday, everyone gets flamed sometime. I deserved it.
Thank goodness you took it the way it was meant :-) But don't be so hard on yourself. So you made a mistake, you did not deserve to be flamed for that - IMHO. My attitude to flaming is that it should be relegated back to the adolescent days of the web (my personal terminology). If somebody posts something I think is stupid I just keep my mouth shut. Why bother starting an argument about it. If it's something I can perhaps add a little to then I will, in as a sensible and mature way I can. -- Take care. Kevan Farmer 34 Hill Street Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR
On Saturday 23 April 2005 14:24, Robert Sweet wrote:
Hello All,
Just thought I would give my upgrade experience. It was horrible. The DVD/CD situation is not right. Packages are missing on the CD's. My server (Dell Poweredge 2600) does not have a DVD, so I did my usual upgrade not thinking anything,
Not thinking anything! You're the admin for the server? You didn't plan ahead for the upgrade? And, since you thought it wise to post such nonsense on a public forum... Your post suggests that the server is critical. Since when do you run the latest 'n' greatest software on a server with vital data in use? If you have good reason to be doing so, then you should know NOT to do an upgrade. You should have done a clean install -- no doubt many others will atest to that.
well upgrade went along, a couple of errors and I got a list of packages to remove, I scanned through them, pushed okay, I didn't see anything that I didn't mind losing. Well after upgrade, Cyrus IMAP was not there! It installed WU-IMAP! WTF I thought, then I noticed CLAM-AV was gone...amavis...etc. I looked on the CD's. Not there. Mounted DVD on laptop and reinstalled...now Cyrus has DBERROR and won't run! Ack...DLT is broken, I am up poo-poo creek now! Mail configuration is all jumbled, reconfigured, can't connect to LMTP socket....ack! Well after 5 hours everything is back up...without amavis. If this is the way Novell is going to take SuSE....I think my next stop might be Debian.
You installed the latest -n- greatest SUSE has to offer, then you make a comment about switching to Debian.?.?.? I don't understand that. Debian -- by design -- does not offer the latest 'n' greatest of anything. After all, their motto is all about stability, not cutting edge software.
I have been running SuSe since the 5.x series, and I always buy the boxed set. I have upgraded various times, and only do clean installs on big changes. This is by far the worst update I have done. I am scared now to do an upgrade. I almost lost 4 years of mail.
In one sentence you say 'update' and the next you say 'upgrade'. What are you talking about??? If you're the admin for the server then surely you do regular backups of your mail -- and all your important data. How then could you have lost four years of mail?
That would have really made my weekend! I was all excited last night when I got my boxed set at Fry's Electronics...yeah...upgrade time...new..new..new....BOOM!
Here is more broken stuff...I did the Multimedia update...NO MP3 now,
If you did the multimedia updates then you would have mp3 support. And, if you read any recent posts from this forum you would have seen that described many, many times.
also USB is not working...I have a DVD/CDRW that I bought for my server, which worked under 9.2, now USB keyboard and mouse don't work, along with Sony USB DVD/CDRW. Very disappointed. Novell better let the folks from Germany do the work. Becuase 9.3 has some issues. Hope this doesn't sound too incoherent...rather frustrated and tired. Need some more coffee. -- .~. | /V\ | Robert Sweet // \\ | Systems Administration and Installation /( )\ | www.garagenetworks.net ^^-^^ | 714.596.5504 Cel. 714.728.0014 Linux |
The sad truth is that some poor soul will come along searching for messages detailing how good -- or not good -- SUSE 9.3 is, in terms of performance and stability. Your message may scare them off; and your message is nonsense. Don't people search the archives before they post??? BTW, why do you need mp3 support for a server? I have SLES9 running on two HP Proliant servers and neither even has a sound card let alone mp3 support. -- Christopher Shanahan
Robert Sweet wrote: (snip)
also USB is not working...
Did you upgrade from a 2.4 kernel? Check /etc/fstab for a line like usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs noauto 0 0 and change it to usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0 because that is what the 2.6 kernel needs. Run /sbin/lsusb and see if it gives you any ports. Regards, -- Jos van Kan www.josvankan.tk
Jos van Kan wrote:
Robert Sweet wrote: (snip)
also USB is not working...
Did you upgrade from a 2.4 kernel? Check /etc/fstab for a line like
usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs noauto 0 0
and change it to usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
because that is what the 2.6 kernel needs. Run /sbin/lsusb and see if it gives you any ports.
Regards,
Real problem was not enough coffee to start with or the wrong type; decaf doesn't do it; but good coffee gives the clarity of mind not to send messages without prior thought and enough energy to handle the frustrations of computing without pulling your hair out. Chris
On Sun April 24 2005 5:30 am, Jos van Kan wrote:
Robert Sweet wrote: (snip)
also USB is not working...
Did you upgrade from a 2.4 kernel? Check /etc/fstab for a line like
usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs noauto 0 0
and change it to usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
because that is what the 2.6 kernel needs. Run /sbin/lsusb and see if it gives you any ports.
Etc is perfect here.......but just found out I also have NO USB support, which IS NOT acceptable!! Fred -- The only bug free software from MickySoft is still shrink-wrapped in their warehouse..."
On Sun April 24 2005 11:39 am, Jos van Kan wrote:
Fred A. Miller wrote:
Etc is perfect here.......but just found out I also have NO USB support, which IS NOT acceptable!!
Fred
What do lsmod | grep usb and /sbin/lsusb tell you?
fm@linux:~> lsmod | grep usb and /sbin/lsusb grep: and: No such file or directory Binary file /sbin/lsusb matches I'm doing a clean install anyway......get rid of some "junk." Fred -- The only bug free software from MickySoft is still shrink-wrapped in their warehouse..."
Fred, On Sunday 24 April 2005 09:05, Fred A. Miller wrote:
On Sun April 24 2005 11:39 am, Jos van Kan wrote:
Fred A. Miller wrote:
Etc is perfect here.......but just found out I also have NO USB support, which IS NOT acceptable!!
Fred
What do lsmod | grep usb and /sbin/lsusb tell you?
fm@linux:~> lsmod | grep usb and /sbin/lsusb grep: and: No such file or directory
For crying out loud. Try not to be such an automaton: % lsmod |grep usb % /sbin/lsusb While I'm here, I'll point out the problems I'm having with USB. I can access my printer just fine, but nothing else on USB shows up at all. And get this: % lsmod |egrep -i usb usbserial 34024 0 usblp 16640 0 usbcore 121688 5 usbserial,usblp,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd % lsusb (That's right: lsusb produces _no_ output). % egrep -i usb /etc/fstab usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0 Neither of my flash RAM sticks (one with FAT and the other with ext2) show up at all when inserted and my Rio Karma is likewise AWOL. I'm pretty sure that I was able to successfully access the RAM sticks shortly after I installed 9.3, but now they're gone. In the past few days I installed VMware 5.0 and I'm wondering if it is responsible for the problem. If I learn more, I'll pass it on. Randall Schulz
Hello again, On Sunday 24 April 2005 09:26, Randall R Schulz wrote:
...
I'm pretty sure that I was able to successfully access the RAM sticks shortly after I installed 9.3, but now they're gone. In the past few days I installed VMware 5.0 and I'm wondering if it is responsible for the problem.
If I learn more, I'll pass it on.
Shortly after writing this, I noticed that VMware had installed a rather large (over 1000 lines) init script (/etc/init.d/vmware). Since I had not rebooted since installing VMware, I did so after discovering this init script. Now things look rather different: % lsmod |egrep -i usb usb_storage 72256 0 usbserial 34024 0 usblp 16640 0 usbcore 121688 6 usb_storage,usbserial,usblp,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd ide_core 131904 4 usb_storage,ide_cd,ide_disk,piix scsi_mod 136008 6 usb_storage,st,sr_mod,sg,aic7xxx,sd_mod % lsusb Bus 005 Device 005: ID 045a:5210 SONICblue, Inc. Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 003 Device 002: ID 05dc:0080 Lexar Media, Inc. Jumpdrive Secure 64MB Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 002 Device 003: ID 03f0:2004 Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 640c Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Likewise, flash RAM sticks are now showing up properly in /media. There was a spurious detection of a new printer (the same old one) which the YaST hardware configurator then recognized as an attempt to reconfigure an already-configured device. So it seems things are working again as they should. Randall Schulz
On Sunday 24 April 2005 12:26 pm, Randall R Schulz wrote:
While I'm here, I'll point out the problems I'm having with USB. I can access my printer just fine, but nothing else on USB shows up at all. And get this:
Well, after the clean install, I NOW do have USB, INCLUDING FULL (it appears) syn. with my Palm, which I've NEVER had before. However, now I don't have sound, even though Yast sees the card and sets it up. It looks like there's a real problem in the sound system for a number of people. Fred -- The only bug free software from MickySoft is still shrink-wrapped in their warehouse..."
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