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About a week ago I installed Slackware 10.2 (full install). After some trouble -was not able to mount my cdrom and hotplug would cause trouble at booting- I got everything working -almost-. To do this, I installed the 2.6.x kernell that comes in the second cd. note: my linux box is about 5km away, and I don´t remember with exactitud some things. Sorry. I followed the instructions giving in the cd, and basically did this: pkginstall the kernell and kernell modules, change lilo.conf pointing now to my new kernell. Since I´m using ext2 filesystem, I understood that that was all. It so apears, because everything went smooth, but for this: I cannot mount my usb pendrive. When I try "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/hd" I get a message that says something like "/dev/sda1 is not a valid block device"
So I´ve doing some reading and searching, and have found some sugestions to people who has had the same problem. I give the answers to this sugestions:
dmesg: when I plug -or unplug- the pendrive, dmesg does not says anything. As if nothing had happend.
fdisk -l: when the pendrive is in, it does not appears on the list.
modprobe: I went trough the rc.modules file (a file located in /etc/rc.d) and check out modules for usb massive storage (again, sorry if the name if not exact. Next time I will write everything down before writing the post) and it works, or so the system says when booting. But for things like usb-hid and similar modules, I get a message like: module does not exists.
I know the usb ports are connected. When I put the memory sticks in, the light flasesh. Neverthless, it´s as if the usb didn´t exist at all!
Don´t know what to do, and I´ve been reading all the HOWTO´s I was able to find and looking all over internet, but to no avail.
BTW: when I say : "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/hd", I mean I´ve tried /sda2, /sda3... /sdb1... /sdf3.... yes, sound crazy, but I´m runing out of ideas!
...I installed the 2.6.x kernell that comes in the second cd. ...
But for things like usb-hid and similar modules, I get a message like: module does not exists.
Hi there, welcome to Slackware!
I'm wondering if you installed the modules for the 2.6.x kernel as well.
Those are also found in the second cd.
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