[Gllug] Re: Gllug digest, Vol 1 #2533 - 17 msgs

[Pete Ryland]

On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 11:54:56AM +0000, Garry Heaton wrote:
> Switching on today the confusion is even greater as although the USB
> device shows-up in Mandrake Control Centre > Info > USB Devices, these
> are absent:
> 
> /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/generic
> /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc
> 
> There is now /dev/scsi/host[1-4] but nothing below lun0 so nothing to mount.
> 
> I switched the device to the second USB port and back again but
> /proc/scsi/scsi seems to simply add an entry each time. It nows shows 4
> duplicate entries ranging from scsi0 to scsi3.

Have you tried doing things like:

/sbin/insmod usb-storage
/sbin/rmmod usb-storage
/sbin/insmod usb-storage

and taking out and re-inserting the card before and/or after the insmod?

> Now, will someone explain to me how Linux is supposed to ready for Joe
> SixPack to plug 'n play? (Ducks while eggs thrown). Only joking. I love
> Linux dearly. Honest :-)

It will be ready eventually.  All it takes is that for each little issue
like this, a bug report be sent to the appropriate developer and hardware
manufacturer (hopefully with information on how to fix the problem) so that
future versions will work better - since without this, the developer
probably has no idea that anyone has ever had trouble with it and the
manufacturer has probably assumed that Linux doesn't exist.

Once we reach a certain point, hardware manufacturers will eventually
recognise operating systems other than MS Windows and either provide drivers
or (preferrably) open their specifications.

Pete
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