USB MP3 Player driver=(none)

Davidian1024 · 07-24-2005, 01:05 PM

I have a Gateway MP3 Photo Jukebox and I am trying to use it under Linux. When I connect it I can see it's entry in /proc/bus/usb/devices.

Code:

T:  Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=01 Cnt=01 Dev#=  3 Spd=480 MxCh= 0
D:  Ver= 2.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=1460 ProdID=2116 Rev= 0.01
S:  Manufacturer=Tatung Co.
S:  Product=Gateway MP3 Photo Jukebox
S:  SerialNumber=1f00045a-00100000-02007e00-007a003f-00001000
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#=128 Atr=c0 MxPwr=  0mA
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff Driver=(none)
E:  Ad=01(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=0ms
E:  Ad=82(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=0ms
E:  Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 512 Ivl=1ms

The problem I notice is that it has no driver. I'm not sure but I believe it is a usb-storage device. Is there a way to tell Linux to use the usb-storage driver with this device?

Half_Elf · 07-24-2005, 01:23 PM

linux detect it by itself usually.
Once you pluged it, type "dmesg". This is the kernel logging. You should see a line like "new USB device found" saying something about "storage allocated to device /dev/sda1" (or something similar, I don't have usb drive to try anymore).
Then just mount it ( mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/where/you/want/it .. according "sda1" is the device found of course) and it will be accessible. USB storage is very well supported usually

NB : double posting is EVIL

Davidian1024 · 07-24-2005, 01:30 PM

This is what I get from dmesg:

Code:

usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 9

I have a usb memory key that is a usb-storage device. It acts more like what you just mentioned. This one however does not appear to be associated with any driver. That is why I mentioned the 'Driver=(none)' line from /proc/usb/bus/devices.

Half_Elf · 07-24-2005, 01:31 PM

there is no line past this one?

Davidian1024 · 07-24-2005, 01:32 PM

Nope, that's it.

johnson_steve · 07-24-2005, 01:33 PM

it probably allready does. just mount it. plug it in and run dmesg it should tell you what device it is (my ipod is /dev/sda and the music is on the third partition so I mount /dev/sda3) this is my fstab entry for my ipod:

Code:

/dev/sda3               /mnt/iPod       hfsplus         users,rw,noauto        0  0

I haven't used a gateway player but I have used a couple other players. my brothers el-cheapo 128Mb usb mp3 player (kindof looks like a shuffle rip off) just plugged it in mounted it copied a bunch of my .mp3 songs to it. it worked just fine. the ipod is a weird one and you can't just copy the songs to it but you have to update a database on the ipod or it cant find the songs you add so you need special software. but your player will probably be just drag and drop put the songs on it and it works as this is how every player that I ever used (other then iPods) worked

Half_Elf · 07-24-2005, 01:33 PM

ok, obliviously there is missing something
What's your distribution and your kernel?

Try "modprobe usb-storage" and see if it does any good

Davidian1024 · 07-24-2005, 01:41 PM

Distribution: LFS
Kernel 2.6.10

usb-storage is already loaded and works fine with my keychain usb flash drive. I mount this through /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdb2. /dev/sda is my main hard drive that Linux is installed on. I've tried doing things like:

fdisk /dev/sdc
mount /dev/sdc1

I still think the problem lies with that 'Driver=(none)' line in /proc/bus/usb/devices. My keychain flash drive has 'Driver=usb-storage'.

Half_Elf · 07-24-2005, 03:53 PM

strange, it's like your kernel doesn't think usb-storage is the driver to use... maybe this jukebox device is a bit weird? My guess would be to recompile the kernel by hand and to add all "optionnal" feature about USB-storage (all support for weird media, support for flash card, support for "gadget" usb-storage, ...) maybe it could do some goods :s