kinoppix 3.7 doesnot detect the usb flash drive
 

hi

i have a knoppix 3.7 live cd and a kingston data traveller usb flash drive.
when i boot knoppix in my home machine and plug in the usb drive it detects it normally

but when i boot kinoppix from a computer in my university and try to plug the same usb drive it does not detect it. but the usb drive works fine when i load windows xp in the same computer (in this particular machine windows detects my usb but kinoppix doesnt but in my home computer both kinoppix and win xp detects the usb ).

any reason for this situation
and how can i get over this

thankz

Have you tried booting up the Knoppix CD with the flash drive already plugged-in to the USB port? That has helped me both with USB2.0 and Firewire devices (flash and external 250GB HDD).

HTH

well yea i did but in the cpu case u can plug in the usb from the front as well as from the back (like in old cpu cases) but i only pluged it in from the front

anyways in when i do lsmod|more i can see the usb-storage module has been loaded
but in the fstab well there were no entry for the usb device so i typed

/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=000,uid=kinoppix,gid=kinoppix 0 0
and made a mounting piont on mnt as sda1
and try to mount the device (sda1) it produces an error "sda1 wrong block device"