ken southerland-at-samsixedd.com |suse-amd64| wrote:
On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 14:28, Joe Landman wrote:
Upgrade your bios. The f.34 bios fixed this for me.
Thanks Joe! That was it. I had f.30 bios, and now f.34 did it. But I had to reinstall windows to update the bios!
Compaq requires you to use windows to flash the bios. Not even DOS! I tried to create a bootable DOS CD and run the flash update from it only to find out that the flash update program won't run in DOS mode. Shees. So I had to start over from scratch, and install Windows again, update the bios and then reinstall Linux. I can't even begin to explain how frustrating this was. In the end I decide on a dual-boot system just in case something like this happens again.
If it were me, I would have tried to send it back to Compaq. You are aware that there are vendors who make Windows-free laptops, including amd64 laptops, are you not?
ken wrote:
On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 13:54, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
ken wrote:
I've installed SuSE 9.2 on my AMD64 Compaq Presario R3000 notebook and my USB ports are not active. I plug in a mouse and its not recognized. I plug in my printer (an EPSON C-80), which works fine under my SuSE 9.1 on my desktop machine, and its not found when I search for it through YaST. They just don't seem to be active at all. I have three ports and they all seem to be detected by the YaST hardware detector.
What is the output of lsusb?
Whether I have something plugged in or not I get ...
saturn:~ # lsusb Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
hwinfo --usb?
saturn:~ # hwinfo --usb 03: USB 00.0: 10a00 Hub [Created at usb.118] Unique ID: k4bc.idGtlevrMYC SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/usb1/1-0:1.0 SysFS BusID: 1-0:1.0 Hardware Class: hub Model: "Linux 2.6.8-24.11-default ehci_hcd EHCI Host Controller" Hotplug: USB Vendor: "Linux 2.6.8-24.11-default ehci_hcd" Device: "EHCI Host Controller" Revision: "2.06" Serial ID: "0000:00:02.2" Driver: "hub" Speed: 1.5 Mbps Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Are you saying it doesn't recognize the hub, or the device plugged into the hub?
Well, that's just it, I'm not sure. Nothing I plug in gets recognized so is it the hub? :(
Does tail -f /var/log/messages tell you anything when you plug in a device?
Nope, nothing. No reaction.
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