Re: USB storage (memstick) trouble
You'll probably need to build your own module (I'm surprised at that,
since I would have expected USB to be in the sock kernel, but from your
message it looks like it's not). You'll want to read the kernel docs on
the debain website, but the basics are:
apt-get install kernel-package kernel-source-2.4.18
cd /usr/src
bunzip2 kernel-source-2.4.18.tar.bz2 | tar xf -
cd kernel-source-2.4.18
make menuconfig
(select what you need, including the SCSI and USB stuff)
make-kpkg binary
cd /usr/src
dpkg -i kernel-image-...-deb (where ... is the kernel you just made)
HOWEVER... I still think there's a hardware problem. Not with your reader,
but with the computer you're using. If lspci doesn't show a USB
controller, no amount of kernel hacking and modules is going to make it
show up. So although the advice above is what you would need to do if you
had evidence of a working USB system, I think you need to deal with the
hardware issues first. Check if USB is enabled in the BIOS. If it is,
check hardware wiring. IF that's okay, I'm stumped and maybe someone else
here who's better at hardware can have a stab at it.
ap
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Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
clists@perrin.socsci.unc.edu * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Johannes Graumann wrote:
> Andrew Perrin <clists@perrin.socsci.unc.edu> wrote:
>
> > He meant lspci - it's a typo. The output you already posted from lspci
> > shows no USB controller connected to the machine, which is why you're
> > not able to access it. That strongly suggests a hardware problem.
> It is not the reader - I have checked it on a Xp (brrr ...) box and it is
> actually able to work ...
>
> > You will need sd_mod, sr_mod, and scsi_mod to use usb-storage, so once
> > you get the hardware issue sorted out you'll need to compile or acquire
> > a kernel that has those modules available.
> Ok, I figured out, that I will need a different kernel image for this. The
> question is: how do I choose? I'm running Sid on AMD 1800+ XP.
> Am I wrong to assume that the K7 images are appropriate for me?
>
> Sorry for the dum newby question ...
>
> Joh
>
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