On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 08:01:02 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote:
I am having trouble getting a USB pen drive to mount. I am running an
up-to-date Etch box.
[...]
mns@xander:~$ mount /media/pen
mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist
I have, in fact, tried two separate pen drives with the same results.
The output from dmesg shows:
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usb 4-4.4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6
usb 4-4.4: no configuration chosen from 1 choice
I see "configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice" in the second line when I
plug in my pen drive.
[...]
It seems that the system is recognizing the drive as it is being plugged in
and unplugged, but that udev is not creating the device file for it. Am I
missing a driver, or what?
It seems to me that things go wrong very early, already before udev is
involved. Unfortunately I do not know what or where this "configuration"
is supposed to be.
[ snip: modprobing usb_storage makes no difference ]
The output of lsmod is:
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mns@xander:~$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
usb_storage 70144 0
scsi_mod 122700 1 usb_storage
[...]
usblp 12224 0
[...]
ehci_hcd 26952 0
ohci_hcd 17348 0
usbcore 111136 5 usb_storage,usblp,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd
[...]
ide_core 111536 6 usb_storage,ide_generic,ide_cd,ide_disk,sis5513,generic
Here is what I get with my USB pen drive plugged in (device was created,
but it is not mounted yet):
$ lsmod | egrep 'usb|hcd'
usb_storage 89920 0
scsi_mod 161592 5 usb_storage,sg,sr_mod,sd_mod,libata
ide_core 149888 2 usb_storage,generic
usbhid 30112 0
hid 28800 1 usbhid
ehci_hcd 36876 0
uhci_hcd 29472 0
I don't think that "usbhid" makes a difference; that is just for my USB
mouse.
What do you get with "lsusb" when the pen drive is plugged in? Maybe you
need to "update-usbids" to have the device identified correctly.