PCMCIA driver having problems using USB 2 DVD Burning
 

G'day Peoplez,

(I originally posted this in Laptop and Handhelds, so please excuse the duplication :) )

Ok here is a bit of history with my laptops PCMCIA Card Bus and the Belkin PCMCIA USB2 2 port card: (w w w .everythingusb.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=6296)

The short of it was until I had downloaded the latest ENE Technology Inc CB-710/2/4 Cardbus Controller WindowXP Drivers (list.driverguide.com/list/company2152/). I was only able to read from the DVDs / cds / usb sticks at USB 1.1 speeds.

When I got the new driver I was then able to access devices at full USB2 Speeds and be able to write dvds / usb sticks.

Well it looks like I'm back in the same square one for linux :(. When I attempt to burn data using k3b my dvd drive just sits there spinning but doing nothing just like last time.

Looking at one of KDE hardware viewer I can see the PCMCIA carbus is using a "yenta_socket".

Could anyone tell me if there is a new / different driver that I can install that will resolve my problem :) ?

Many Thanks
Mark


Here is info about my pc:

[Kernel Version:]

2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.stk16, just updated to this version today to allow my softmodem drivers to work. But even with the original kernel, I still could not burn via the USB2.

[Output from lspic:]:

00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS200/RS200M AGP Bridge [IGP 340M] (re
v 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc PCI Bridge [IGP 340M]
00:02.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
00:03.0 Modem: ALi Corporation M5457 AC'97 Modem Controller
00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link Controlle
r Audio Device (rev 02)
00:06.0 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU]
00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV]
00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB-710/2/4 Cardbus Controller (rev 01
)
00:0b.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset (rev
01)
00:0c.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB21 IEEE-1394a-2000 Contro
ller (PHY/Link)
00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139
C+ (rev 10)
00:10.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c4)
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon IGP 330M/340M/350
M
02:00.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
02:00.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
02:00.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 04)

Yenta_socket sounds right. This should give access to whatever is in the PCMCIA socket. But then what? I don't know. There is a list of supported cards at

http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/

but there is no mention of PCMCIA to USB adapters at all.

As a long shot you could just try loading the usb-storage module. Check the kernel messages also (output of 'dmesg').

G'day Maroonbaboon,

Thanks for your reply, looking at both dmesg and "/proc/bus/usb/devices" I can see that usb-storage is being used. Aslo from the likes of Spd=480 and the fact that appears to be using the ECHI-HCD drivers is that its correctly detecting it as USB 2.0.

<Clipping from "/proc/bus/usb/devices" >

T: Bus=04 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 2 Spd=480 MxCh= 0
D: Ver= 2.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=059b ProdID=0251 Rev= 0.01
S: Manufacturer=Iomega
S: Product=Optical USB 2.0 Drive
S: SerialNumber=DEF10909BF51
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr= 0mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=08(stor.) Sub=06 Prot=50 Driver=usb-storage
E: Ad=02(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=0ms
E: Ad=88(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=0ms

So I'm still no closer here :( I've had a look at the web site you suggested, but nothing has help me there.

Regards
Mark

Well, maybe just try to ignore that the pcmcia adapter is there and concentrate on the DVD drive. Googling for linux + "usb dvd" gets a few hits such as:

http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/t...te-travellite/

about getting an external DVD drive working on a notebook. There is also the list of working USB devices (searching for DVD) at

http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/searc...hp?pattern=dvd

Only Iomega device is listed as non-working tho'. Sorry, but this area all way outside my experience. I did play around with yenta-socket to get some things operating but it sounds like that part of the chain may be working OK.