Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (5100 mails)

[Brian Craft <javaman67@xxxxxxx>]

Tom Corr wrote:
> On Saturday 05 June 2004 15:29, John Andersen wrote:
> Which memory stick do you use?  I've heard mixed reports about SanDisk Cruzers 
> and am wondering which one I should try next, if i give up on mine.
>
> thanks again.
> tom
>
>
> > On Saturday 05 June 2004 04:47, Tom Corr wrote:
> >
> > > On Saturday 05 June 2004 01:46, John Andersen wrote:
> > > thank you...  that did help/solve one problem.  i can now reboot the box
> > > with the usb flash stick plugged in (i couldnt do that before... it would
> > > just hang).
> > >
> > > i guess what still puzzles me about this whole thing is that the stick
> > > works just fine on my Suse 9 box, and is now broken on my suse 9.1 box.
> > > i've also tried the stick on a fedora core 2 box and it worked there as
> > > well.
> >
> > Well its a whole new kernel, and it was known that not everything was
> > perfect yet.  AFAIK 2.4 kernels did not support USB 2.0 very well (or at
> > all) and perhaps your USB device always defaulted to 1.1.  (Is it a dual
> > standard device: 2.0 and 1.1?).  Now in the 2.6 kernel it tries to access
> > it with the 2.0 modules ehci-hcd, but the load order prevented that from
> > working.
> > I'm guessing here, all I know is it worked for me.
> >
> > BTW: for otheres, here is the page reference:
> >
> > http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/01/USB_2_0.html
> >
> > --
> > _____________________________________
> > John Andersen

I had problems with a SanDisk Cruzer 256MB Thumbdrive and switched to a 
Lexar JumpDrive and it works great.  No tweeking needed.  I'm running 
SuSE 9.1 Pro.



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