USB thumb drive questio

Stephen Liu satimis at yahoo.com
Sun Apr 23 15:50:10 UTC 2006


Hi Charles,


> > AVIXE 1G
- snip -

> > # dmesg | grep usb
> > usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
> > usbcore: registered new driver hub
> > usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
> > usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
> > drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.01:USB HID core driver
> > SELinux: initialized (dev usbfs, type usbfs), uses genfs_contexts
> > usb 4-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
> > usb-storage: device found at 2
> > usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
> > usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
> > usb-storage: device scan complete
> > * * * END * * *
> 
> Curious, either it didn't show the plug-in information, like what I
> showed you recently, or you didn't copy it in. No big deal, as the
> fdisk results show what we need.

That is the complete printout.


- snip -

> > Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> > * * * End * * *

> Anyway, the things are clearly working correctly under FC3. I've seem
> other USB devices work on one version of Linux but not another. So my
> guess is that there is a bug, either in FC5 or in FC5_64. It would
> help to have an FC5_32 machine to narrow things down. We'll see what
> lsusb reveals.

I'll try to install FC5_32 on this box but on ATA133/100 HD because no
spare SATA-II HD in hand.

- snip -

> > Neither "yum search lsusb" found this package.  Please advise which
> > package is needed?  TIA
> 
> Odd. "yum provides lsusb" got no hits. It should have returned
> "usbutils", which is the package you want. I wonder if that's a bug
> in
> yum?

"yum search usbutils" found it.  I got this package installed on FC5_64
box.

# /sbin/lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

It can't find the USB thumb drive.

B.R.
SL




More information about the fedora-list mailing list