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ruwach

Member

Registered: 2004-06-14

Posts: 143

Hey, where is my usb stuff?

hey there,

i dont seem to have any usb devices able to work on Arch .6  ( 2.6.7)
i have tried digikam and gtkam for my usb camera and it could not be found.
i tried xcdroast and it didn't find my usb cd-writer.

both of these worked without a hitch in debian, so it must be a kernel module that i have failed to load.

i tried a mod-probe usb and it says can not find module usb
tried modprobe usb-storage and was informed that module usb-storage was already in the kernel. don't know how to use hotplug even if it is applicable.

so, what should i do ? this is an Arch stock kernel - not self made.
please advise

here is my lsmod

Module                  Size  Used by
parport_pc             22976  1
lp                      9608  0
parport                36808  2 parport_pc,lp
snd_pcm_oss            51880  0
snd_mixer_oss          18304  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_ens1371            22884  1
snd_rawmidi            21540  1 snd_ens1371
snd_seq_device          6920  1 snd_rawmidi
snd_pcm                91780  2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_ens1371
snd_page_alloc          9480  1 snd_pcm
snd_timer              23556  1 snd_pcm
snd_ac97_codec         68356  1 snd_ens1371
snd                    50276  10 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_ens1371,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_ac97_codec
soundcore               8160  1 snd
gameport                3968  1 snd_ens1371
sis                    55808  0
8139too                22272  0
mii                     4864  1 8139too
crc32                   4352  1 8139too
usb_storage            97936  0

robot5x

Member

Registered: 2004-01-26

Posts: 266

Re: Hey, where is my usb stuff?

You'll also need to do

modprobe sd-mod

that's all I need, along with usb-storage

ruwach

Member

Registered: 2004-06-14

Posts: 143

Re: Hey, where is my usb stuff?

ok i tried that, and it loaded. however,  when i tried to run gtkam from the terminal it told me that it could not list folders in / 
ok, got no idea what that means. Tried to run as root. same results.

what is the next step -   I R baffled  its your call

thanks for the reply and help btw

lilsirecho

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Registered: 2003-10-24

Posts: 5,000

Re: Hey, where is my usb stuff?

You may need fstab entries for each of your devices and a mount directory entry in root /mnt

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ruwach

Member

Registered: 2004-06-14

Posts: 143

Re: Hey, where is my usb stuff?

ok, got the camera working, still no CD-Writer
in debian, the CDRW did not have its own FSTAB entry, but i will do what you suggested and try it out if that might help, i kinda need a step by step though......
thanks

robot5x

Member

Registered: 2004-01-26

Posts: 266

Re: Hey, where is my usb stuff?

hmm - just read your other thread. Seems like I totally forgot about the usb controller modules - I thought they got called in when you modprobed usb-storage but obviously not. Sorry about that