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Re: where's my USB floppy?



Curtis Dean Smith <cds@WorkBean.fl.gvsu.edu> writes:

> Hello!
>
> I just bought a new Sony Viao GR-311 laptop with the Vaio USB floppy drive. 
> I am new to USB, and so am not quite sure how to access the floppy.  I have
> a March mirror of Woody installed, and threw kernel 2.4.17 on.  Where should
> I look.

Most likely you need to compile a new Kernel, USB

and please visit http://linuxusbguide.sourceforge.net/
there you find the information needed to get USB working,
BTW this answer is _not_ a RTFM :-) 

hth :-) 

>
> BTW,  I also had to recompile to get the Frame Buffer support for X.  Is
> this the right way, or can the pachaged kernel do ATI Radion Moble FB?
>
> Thanks!
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