On Sunday 22 June 2003 3:39 am, Peter Evans wrote:
Hello. I'm a hopeless newbie.
I have SuSE 8.2 Personal. The system was updated less than 24 hours ago. My floortop has two USB orifices in its front. I've just stuck a cheapo "V-TEC V-Drive USB Flash Drive" http://www.v-tec.com.tw/ memory card into one of them. I heard a jolly beeping sound. Er, now what?
Many USB devices follow what is called "USB mass storage" devices. Your device may or may not be one of them. USB MS devices are (usually) detected by the 'hotplug' part of the kernel and are defined to the system as scsi devices. (/dev/sda1, /dev/sda2 etc) Additionally, you may or may not find an icon placed on your desktop after hearing the beep. The icon would allow you to mount the device. Usually there would be a mount point also added to /media as in /media/sda1 for example. Assuming you can start from scratch on this and get back to the point where the beep is heard, you want to look in /var/log/messages and see what messages were generated when you plugged in the device. It may tell you that it detected the device, say something about mass storage modules, and tell you the device address. It may also say that "no modules were found for the device" (or something similar to that) and then you're out of luck. I would go back to the vendor and ask for more information. I have a Addonics reader here that is 'linux compatible' but it took me beating up the vendor to get the specific information as to how to get it into the system. But it can be done.
YaSTCC's "hardware" tab has nothing about "USB", "removable media", "other memory devices", etc. etc.
YaST2's "Hardware Information" probe reaches "14%" and "USB" and thereupon either hangs or stops to think for an extraordinarily long time. Hitting "Abort" does nothing, so I hit Crtl-Alt-Esc (I'm making a lot of use of this key combination these days).
http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/usb_devices.html "Setting Up USB Support and USB Devices" is only about older versions of SuSE.
The maker of the memory card says it's Linux compatible (whatever that means, if anything) and offers a PDF of instructions that don't mention Linux.
I thought I could at least play a CD on this machine. But now, although I'm not aware of having made any changes to the system, KsCD refuses to load and I can't even play CDs while I enjoy spending thirty minutes attempting to do things that took mere seconds in MS-DOS. Ah well. . . .
Oh, hello, hitting Ctrl-Alt-Esc after a second abortive attempt at a hardware probe brings up ProcessTable -- sometimes it does this, usually it doesn't; I've no idea why it works differently at different times -- which tells me that seven processes of KsCD are running. I kill the lot. (But afterwards, KsCD still won't load.)
-- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 06/22/03 10:18 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "The fish that escaped is the big one."