Hello,

I'm running a current version of slackware with:

kernel 2.6.16.15 (built myself)
udev-071-i486-1


When i plug in a usb pen drive two things are not happening:

1) the light on the drive doesn't come on
2) no device is created in /dev/


however, the device is listed in "lsusb". And a new file called "usbdev1.5" is created in /dev


I am wondering what the situation is with usb drives etc now with this version of udev and new kernel.... Do I have to change my udev rules or something. Or could it be a kernel problem (ehci and ohci are loaded as kernel modules).

:wq

Heh, nice sign off

First up, udev 071 (unless it's a typo) is quite outdated. I'd start by updating to 091, the rules syntax has changed so I'd start with the default and go from there, maybe the problem you're having has been fixed or a behaviour has changed since then.

thanks!

071 is from current so i assuming it's pretty much working... I'm not sure what this is with udev now. Where does hot plug come into this. Linux is so bad in this area, you feel like you're pulling your hair out sometimes... anyway....

i'm really confused..........

The problem should come from some modules missing
While compiling the new kernel you probably forgot to compile these modules (may be only some of them)
sg
sd_mod
usb_storage
Ciao

Have you checked the permissions of '/etc/rc.d/rc.udev' and made sure that it is 'executable'?.
It is NOT executable by default in Slackware-current.

sd??? what's that.

of course i did include usb mass storage support........

help i'm being tempted by debian and getting really angry at slackware more and more...

sd_mod and sg is the name of the modules you should have compiled either built in or as loadable module.
They enable scsi_generic (sg) and scsi_disks (sd_mod).
If you find Slackware is boring you can give a try to Debian.. why not.
Ciao

Maybe it's just a phase ;-)

anyway, i have included support of generic scsi and scsi disks.

here's the output of dmesg pertaining to the usb drive:

so that's seems fine....

and it's in "lsusb" of course.


but in dev...


ls -lsrt /dev/ | tail -n 5

this is created:

has anyone got or seen that before???

They rely on usb controllers.
have you tryied

udevinfo -q path -n /dev/sda1

and then

udevinfo -a -p /output/of/previous/command/

May be this can clarify

Ciao

What about usb_storage (called USB Mass Storage Support in menuconfig)?

yes i have included that - see above....



thanks anyway

Do you have a usbfs entry in /etc/fstab? Should look something like this:
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs user,defaults 0 0

yeah i do have that..... seems a unique problem to me!

does anyone else get deives like "usbdev1.5" and "usbdev2.2" listed in /dev??

Hmm yeah, my bad about not noticing. Try 'mknod /dev/sda1 b 8 1' and then try to mount it as 'mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /where/you/want'.
Does it work?