Hi all!
I am having a BIG problem (at least for me).

I have tryed to mount my (USB) music player Iriver ihp-120 on my Debian system, but when I try to check what port its connected to (with "dmesg"), it just dosnt' show up..

The display on the Iriver says "connected", but stil nothing from debian!

I have tryed to mount it anyway, guessing the port,"sdb1", "sda1" (changing my fstab) and some more ports, but ofcourse it dosn't work.

The error I get is:


mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sdb1 as a block device
(maybe `insmod driver'?)
Please check that the disk is entered correctly.


I am guessing that maybe I hasnt installed the USB 2.0 drivers correctly, but still how do I do that??

My Fstab looks like this:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
/dev/hde2 / ext2 errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hde4 none swap sw 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hde1 /boot ext2 defaults 0 2
/dev/hde3 /home ext2 defaults 0 2
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/USB vfat noauto,user,rw 0 0

Hope that helps.

I hope someone can help me, I am really desperate!
Thx in advance!

Sounds like it will see it as a usb storage device so you need the support. Check to see if you have modconf installed by doing modconf as root from a console. if not do the following apt-get install modconf hotplug discover. You need to then do modconf and go down the list to usb and install the required drivers and also set the relevant entries in your fstab. Hotplug and discover should do a pretty good for you during boot or when you plug it in.

I did as you said and I ran modconf but I couldnt find any USB driver to install at all. I did then install hotplug and discover, and ran discover after I had pluged in my player, but offcourse it found nothing since I didnt find any USB drivers to install with modconf.

I allso tried to install a packege that apt-get recommended usbutils, but it didn't change anything.



I am running kernel 2.2.20 since I dont know how to upgrade.

The 2.2.20 kernel is your main problem. You can either upgrade the kernel by;
apt-cache search kernel-image-2.4 and then make a note of the latest available kernel and then apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.X or;
you can re-install using the switch bf24 at the boot prompt or install Sarge by downloading the new installer and install a 2.6 kernel using the switch linux26 at the boot prompt.

what kernel should i use if i have an AMD Athlon 64 3000+?
And motherboard, RS480M2?

I would definitely go for the Sarge installer with linux26. There is a fair amount of support for 64 bit now.

do I have to download ISO files for that or can I do it in another way? Then how?

And what about my partitions do I have to erase them too?'

Whats the name of the file?

and what is switch bf24 and switch linux26?


you can re-install using the switch bf24 at the boot prompt or install Sarge by downloading the new installer and install a 2.6 kernel using the switch linux26 at the boot prompt.

Download the iso at http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimag...86-netinst.iso
then burn it to cd. When you boot it and you get the boot prompt enter linux26 and it will do the install using the 2.6 kernel. No need to repartition as it will pick up the partitions and use them.

And that version works fine with the new AMD Athlon 64, pci xpress and my new motherboard RS480M2?
Because I have problems with the dvd-rom, the integreted graphic card (Ati Radeon xpress 200) and the inegreted sound card aswell.

There is a specific branch that is being developed for amd64 but it is strictly in testing phase and would therefore be fairly buggy. I would not recommend you try it at the moment. They hope to have a version available soon as an option for the Sarge installer. The only problem I forsee is the ATI which are troublesome for most distros.

I can see that Sarge is in testing and I wonder if i have to reinstall it when it comes a stable version, or if I can upgrade with apt-get -u dist-upgrade to the new version?

And isn't Sarge very buggy? (a lot of bugs)

Sarge (testing is quite stable). If you have installed a lot of stuff it is probably quicker to do clean install of Sarge with the new installer. If it is still fairly small then do a dist-upgrade. I would also suggest installing a package called listbugs if you go to Sarge as this will tell you about the severity of any bugs in the packages and then you can choose to install or not.

I have tried Sarge now, but it didn't help at all I can't even install, it says that it can't fin my harddrive.

What type of hard drive is it? (eg ATA) I suggest using the 2.6 kernel version using linux26 at the boot prompt.

S-ATA and it dosn't help to type linux26 in boot. It still can't find the harddrive.