It's really annoying me

Which one, what kind of card, and hi, welcome to LQ

And what steps have you tried to do to make it work? What distro are you running, what color socks are you wearing, how long has it been since the braves have gone to the World Series, what kernel are you running, what level of experience do you have using linux, what kind of day is it where you are, is anybody still reading this, and so on.

Anyway, mostly:
what distro, what have you tried, what kind of card, and what reader would be good info's.

Cool

MasterC,

I have a PNY SmartMedia USB card reader.
RH 7.3, 2.4.18

On bootup, I see mention of ohci and ehci coming up OK.

I have USB mass storage support running.

Looked in dmesg and all looks ok, but not seeing any mention of SCSI IDs or hardware name for storage.

I have checked what is running under SCSI and I can only see my CD/RW.

I also have a FijiFilm A101 FinePix digital camera, but can't load it either. Suppose to run under mass-storage driver.

Any idea what might be or not be happening?

thanks,

Vince

Well, depending on what's enabled in your kernel, my device has been the same in 4 distros: /dev/sda1 But others have mentioned sda4 and such, so I guess it depends on how you are mounting the device. Open a terminal and type:
tail -f /var/log/messages
And then plug in your device. It will give you a readout. See if it tells you which device your card reader or camera have become.

You will need the following enabled in the kernel:
USB Mass Storage (module name: usb-storage)
VFAT filesystem support
SCSI Disk support
And depending on your chipset, ohci, uhci or if you have usb 2.0 ehci.

Cool

MasterC,

Everything you mentioned above is enabled. However, I did get an error message...

Sep 27 20:28:00 linux1 kernel: hub.c: Cannot enable port 5 of hub 1, disabling port.
Sep 27 20:28:00 linux1 kernel: hub.c: Maybe the USB cable is bad?

I know the cable is not bad because I can use it with my camera w/ Win ME. It must be something in the connects to the MB or BIOS setting. I do know that I have seen the video sharing IRQs w/ the USB. I have 6 ports for USB connections: 4- USB 1.x and 2- USB 2.0.

I can't control either the IRQ for the vid or USB.

Any other ideas?

Thanks for getting back!

Vince

Did you try a different slot? Also, are you trying to plug this into the 2.0 slot? If so, I think there might be issues with that still. I'd give each slot a try. Sounds stupid, but I have 1 slot (probably hardware problem since no other OS's recognize it either) that just doesn't work.

Anyway, yeah, give the other slots a try.

Cool

Found an answer...

It is a board stroke, but updating the RH 7.3, kernel 2.4.18-3 to 2.4.18-10 helped me get my PNY reader/ writer to work using the mass storage driver- $ modprobe usb-storage. On the first try it worked on a 2.0 ver USB port.


Vince

hi MasterC

i use the Red Hat 8.0
and I typed "tail -f /var/log/messages "and plugged in my USB storage
it said:
localhost kernel:hub.c:USB newdevice connect on bus 1/1,assigned device number 3
localhost kernel:/etc/hotplug/usb.agent:Setup usb-storage for USB product aec/5010/100

then what should I do now?

Thank you for getting back!

Easiest way I found possible now is to use cdrecord -scanbus

But it looks (again, I don't know for sure) that it is scd1 or scd3. -scanbus should give you a more difinitive answer though.

Cool

I tyied the "cdrecord -scanbus",but it said "Cannot open SCSI driver"

and,in the "Hardware Browser"
the USB Driver:usb-uhci
the USB Device:N/A

also,i typed "lsmod |grep usb"
and when i tried to "insmod usb-storage"
it said it has been installed...


Should i make a setting in the kernel and re-compile the kernel?

I'm really annoyed...

You do need to be root when doing the cdrecord -scanbus on some systems.

I do think that you might need a kernel recompile though, do not be afraid, there are many people here who have provided tons of info on this, and would be happy to ask any further questions, or walk you through it.

Yes, usb-storage is already there as it shows from you /var/log/messages.

If you want to blindly try devices in a last ditch effort, try these:

/dev/sda (and 1-4)
/sdb (and 1-4)
/scd0 (and 1-4)

Good luck, but it does look like you might need one

Cool

Yeah,I logged on as root and doing the cdrecord -scanbus

and,I'm afraid that i have tried all the
/dev/sda (and 1-4)
/sdb (and 1-4)
/scd0 (and 1-4)
...
but it still doesn't work...

I think i really need a kernel recompile
It's not a easy work,is it?

Well that's relative. Compared to buiding engines, I don't think it's hard

Read through the newbie section, there are loads of posts on it. If you have questions, ask.

It won't be as bad as you think though, most things aren't.

Cool

heres what i did, enabled ohci or uhci (i forget which one)
enabled usb mass storage
enabled fat vfat and a couple other file systems(for my network and other hard drives)
in /etc/fstab i added the following line

/dev/sda1 /mnt/smedia vfat noauto,owner 0 0

then i made a directory /mnt/smedia

then i modprobe usb-storage and it worked

btw my "pny" smartmedia reader comes up as:
PQI Travel Flash
s/n 4710765066451

maybe this might help someone