Hello all,
I'm having some difficulties with getting some USB2 storage keys working.

I have a USB1 key that works flawlessly. Plug it in, and it's assigned sda1 and I can mount it and use it.

I have two USB2 keys that don't work very well. Some times when I plug one in it's recognised, and some times it's not. It seems totally random weather they're detected or not. When they are detected, I can mount them and use them fine.

I'm using Kernel 2.4.33.3

Does anyone have any experiance of this, or know of a fix?

I'm new to Linux, but I wonder if there is a problem with USB2 support on my machine, which is an NForce3 system.

Many thanks
Abyteapart

I would boot up with the 2.6.17 kernel that comes with slackware 11 for starts. A much more newer kernel structure over 2.4. It can be the hardware is not 100 percent perfect or a buggy usb module. One can check out www.kernels.org and read the changelogs related to 2.4.33 and check for ones after 2.4.33.3. They could mention possible bugs. For USB2 it uses the ehci-hcd module.

FOr my experience was in 2.6.9 custom kernels never worked with one of my MP3 SDcard players. 2.6.8 and aerlier and 2.6.10 and after have all worked with it. Not one single revision level with in the 2.6.9 would work. Even tried many patches from Alan Cox to others. No luck there.

One thing to try is boot up with a Live CD like Knoppix or Ubuntu and do some testing to see if it sees the hardware and devices.

Brian

Brian,
Thanks for the suggestion.....I should have thought of testing my hardware with a different kernel.

I guess I can boot the slackware install CD with a 2.6 kernel and use that for testing?

Thanks for your help....I learn more every day.......

Abyteapart

Update:
Using the huge26.s kernel from the install CD seems to have solved the problem. Looks like I should be using a 2.6 kernel.

Abyteapart

Glad to see you have it working.

Brian