Guys/gals,

New to Linux, how do I make my linux box detects USB devices like my digital camera, my USB RAM/drive, etc?

Thanx,
Rax

each device will need to be researched, depending on the type.
the devices you listed above will most likely appear as scsi drives like:
/dev/sda1
/dev/sdb1
you will need to make the appropriate entries in your fstab then mount them.
for example a usb thumb drive is setup by the following:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/usbstick vfat user,noauto,umask=0 0 0
then you would type mount /dev/sda1
when you plug in a usb device look at your system logs, if you have hotplug usb support enabled then you will see messages telling you a device was found and what is is called

Finlay,

Thanx for the reply. I installed a little program called "usbview", and it sees the flash drive, but I cannot access it. I figured out how to read my digital camera, but not luck with my flash drive.

Rax

What happened when you tried to mount the flash drive? What is it's /dev name? Is there an entry for it in /etc/fstab?

try this:
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...56701%2C00.asp

sorry wrong one

This is what I have on /etc/fstab:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/usbstick vfat user,noauto,umask=0 0 0
then I try to mount it on /mnt/usbstick, and I get this:
mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist

By the way I am using Mandrake 10.0

This is what the /var/log/messages says about the flash drive:

Jul 20 10:09:17 localhost kernel: usb 4-5: USB disconnect, address 8
Jul 20 10:09:23 localhost kernel: usb 4-5: new high speed USB device using address 12
Jul 20 10:09:24 localhost modprobe: FATAL: Module scsimon not found.
Jul 20 10:09:24 localhost kernel: scsi10 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Jul 20 10:09:24 localhost kernel: Vendor: Fujifilm Model: USB Drive Rev: 4.70
Jul 20 10:09:24 localhost kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Jul 20 10:09:24 localhost kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi10, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Jul 20 10:09:24 localhost kernel: Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi10, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0
Jul 20 10:09:25 localhost scsi.agent[7320]: disk at /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb4/4-5/4-5:1.0/host10/10:0:0:0

Fujifilm Model: USB Drive is my usb flash drive.

Thanx,
Rax

Finlay,

I tried the URL instructions, but still I cannot read my flash drive. I am using Mandrake 10.0
I was able to make my Sony digital camera to work, no problem with it, but no luck with my flash drive.

Rax

what is your output for: lsmod | more

Finlay,

This is what lsmod displays, the first page:

Module Size Used by
nls_iso8859-1 3904 0
nls_cp850 4736 0
vfat 13760 0
fat 45120 1 vfat
usb-storage 72932 0
sg 38044 0
st 38616 0
sr_mod 17028 0
sd_mod 16832 0
scsi_mod 114648 5 usb-storage,sg,st,sr_mod,sd_mod
radeon 127008 28
nfsd 173152 8
exportfs 5920 1 nfsd
md5 3872 1
ipv6 232352 12
ipt_TOS 2240 12
ipt_pkttype 1536 0
ipt_multiport 1856 0
ipt_conntrack 2304 0
iptable_mangle 2624 1
ip_nat_irc 3984 0
ip_nat_tftp 3248 0
ip_nat_ftp 4592 0
iptable_nat 23116 3 ip_nat_irc,ip_nat_tftp,ip_nat_ftp
ip_conntrack_irc 71124 1 ip_nat_irc
ip_conntrack_tftp 3348 0
ip_conntrack_ftp 71668 1 ip_nat_ftp
snd-seq-oss 31232 0
snd-seq-midi-event 7552 1 snd-seq-oss
snd-seq 51024 4 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq-midi-ev

Linux is getting closer to be a truly P&P OS, but little details like this will keep Bill Gates getting reacher and reacher! There is not question about the Linux is a great super great OS, better than Win98, and 2000.

Rax

as i have never used mandrake i can't say this for sure but it appears as though you are missing usb-uhci and usbcore modules.

you may want to move this to the mandrake forum and see if one of them can help you from here.

I do know that slackware and red hat load these modules out of the box.

Well, I followed the instructions posted on this site:
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...1256701,00.asp
I tweaked it a little bit, this site said to use "sda1", so I used "sda" only, and it worked. The next step that I would like to solve is that when I plug the flasd drive, the computer does not see it, I need to munt it, then it's ready. Any idea how to to dos this?

Raxxal