[GLLUG] USB Flash Drive connectivity SOLVED

[Brian Hoort]

Group,

The suggestion to "modprobe usb-uhci" was the winner.  Thanks for a quick 
and easy solution.

Brian

At 06:30 PM 12/16/2003, Matt Graham wrote:
>On Tuesday 16 December 2003 17:23, after a long battle with technology,
>Sean O'Malley wrote:
> > On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Brian Hoort wrote:
> > > I have purchased a Lexar USB "ThumbDrive".  I have tried to connect
> > > to it on my new Debian box running 2.4.18-1 without success.
> > > modprobe usb-storage (I think that's what it's called, I type from
> > > memory) succeeds, but I can attempt to mount /dev/sda1 through
> > > /dev/sdb15 without a hit.  On my previous Linux box this was all I
> > > had to do to mount my digicam, and I believe there is no difference
>
>Are usb-uhci or usb-ohci loaded?  You need to have one of them loaded.
>It's possible to load usb-storage if the base USB chipset support isn't
>loaded.
>
> > Try linux-usb.org. Lexar has its own litle system for drivers for
> > their card readers.
>
>That too.  If the base USB chipset support is loaded and the device
>isn't supported, you should see something like this in dmesg:
>
>usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x4102/0x1003) is not claimed by any
>active driver.
>
>(the device above, an iRiver 390T mp3 player, is supported by libusb and
>the ifp-line project available on sourceforge, in case anyone was
>wondering--just not the usb-storage module!)
>
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