[Gllug] Dell Problems

[Christopher Hunter]

On Sun, 2012-04-15 at 22:21 +0100, Christopher Hunter wrote:
> All
> 
> My neighbour wants to try Ubuntu on his Dell Latitude D830 after the
> usual Windows disasters.  A quick install of the latest Ubuntu was
> entirely successful except for one issue - the USB ports don't work.  
> 
> We recovered a whole lot of media from the hard drive of the laptop
> before formatting it, and now want to restore it using a USB stick.
> 
> All the USB devices I've tried work OK on my machines, but cannot be
> seen by this Dell.  Any suggestions?
> 
One bit of further information - a USB mouse plugged into the ports
works OK.  It just seems to be storage media that it can't "see".

Chris



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