[K12OSN] USB hub not working on VXL thinclients ( TC4331 ) SOLVED

[Meelis]

Hi Jim and thanks for the reply.

If there was a text about this by Scott Balnaeves it would have been nice to 
make a reference to it at that time. No answer about it will not make me 
belive that nobody knows nothing at all. I'm a forum person and I'm used to 
the custom that instead of not answering people post links to related topics 
or webpages in order to help me get some sort of solution. However I have 
found a solution to USB problem thaks to Dave Hopkins who was kind to help 
me. There is no need to start pointing fingers and blaim people as this will 
take all day and solves nothing. :)

For the future I'll share my solution as it might help others who may get 
the same problem :)

My problem was with the kernel that was too old to handle new terminal USB 
hub. As I tried to update it by yum I found out that this did not do the 
trick. It did update packages but left alone LTSP packages that were in use.
So first I updated by yum that downloaded new k12ltsp packages with the new 
kernel files.

Now that I had the kernel I needed to give them to terminals. However as yum 
did not update ltsp fully I needed to use ltspadmin utility and set the 
location to old ltsp dir. ( /opt/ltsp ). Default would have been 
/opt/ltsp-4.2 or someting like that. So now that I updated by ltspadmin and 
my files in ltsp directory were fully updated I needed to make some new 
symlinks in order to serve terminals the new kernel.

So first I copied from the kernel dir (from tftpboot dir made by yum) new 
PXE files to old PXE directory. Next I remade the symlinks to point to the 
new kernel. This did the trick as my terminals started to download the 
kernel and finally I got the USB hub working.


With regards,
Meelis
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meelis at nlib.ee


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Kronebusch" <jim at winonacotter.org>
To: "Support list for open source software in schools." <k12osn at redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 10:57 PM
Subject: Re: [K12OSN] USB hub not working on VXL thinclients ( TC4331 )


> On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 09:16:52 +0300, Meelis wrote
>> As I can see nobody could help me solve this problem. Just like nobody
>> shared no ideas how to enable martcard
>> support that was an issue about ... ummm ... 3 months ago and still not
>> solved. (No mail was returned at that time aswell!)
>>
>> It would be nice if someone at least writes an answer "I do not know" so 
>> I
>> would know this list is still active and my mail goes through. To get no
>> answer at all is silly and frustrating.
>
> Would 400 "I do not know" messages really be all that helpful?  It is very 
> safe to
> assume that if nobody responds that nobody knows or the users who do know 
> did not see
> the message, or maybe saw it and did not post due to time constraints and 
> forgot (I have
> done this plenty of times).  A polite response to your original post 
> saying "I'm still
> working on this and have made no progress, ideas?"  Would be enough to get 
> it in front
> of everyone again so you are not forgotten.
>
> If you search the archives you'll see the mentioned thread regarding the 
> problems with
> USB hubs not working (Scott Balnaeves gave a great explanation on why this 
> is a
> problem).  As for Smartcards not working "I do not know".
>
> Jim
>
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