[SWLUG] USB memory with Debian/Stable

[Foeh Mannay]

I seem to remember (and I'm sure I'll be corrected if I'm wrong) that
USB support isn't compiled into the kernel that comes with stable.
Perhaps I'm mis-remembering it now as it was a long time ago, and it
took me about 10 kernels to get sound, USB, ADSL, TV card & DMA hard
drive access working simultaneously. You may need to add IDE/SCSI too -
I'm not sure about that though. I know my USB mass storage mounts as
sda1... which I think means it's being SCSI emulated.

Actually that's quite rambly, but in essence I think you probably need
to recompile the kernel.

Foeh

On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 18:55, Mark Summerfield wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've just bought a usb memory stick. I have two distros on my system,
> Debian/Stable and Fedora Core 2. The memory stick works fine with FC2, I
> just had to add this line to /etc/fstab:
> 
> /dev/sda1  /usb auto    rw,user,noauto 0 0
> 
> and I can now do "mount /usb" and "umount /usb" with no problems.
> 
> However, I use Debian 99% of the time and so I want to use the usb
> memory from Debian. Unfortunately I don't know how to do this. I added
> the same line to Debian's /etc/fstab and when I tried mounting /usb I
> got the message:
> 
> mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sda1 as a block device
>        (maybe `insmod driver'?)
> 
> so then I tried insmod (as superuser) but both usb-ohci and usb-storage
> complained about unresolved symbols.
> 
> Is anyone able to tell me step by step (e.g. in file XXX add lines YYY,
> etc.) what I can do to make this work? I am hopeless at sysadmin (as
> you've no doubt guessed).
> 
> Thanks!