usb storage devices
Dale Raby
daleraby at gmail.com
Sat Mar 12 00:20:30 UTC 2005
I have another piece of this puzzle. From the GUI menu System:
Tools/Network Device Control, then click on "configure", the USB
devices are immediately detected.
I don't understand... but at least it works... now why won't my
printer work? Sorry... need a new thread.
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 00:10:35 -0600, Steven P. Ulrick
<ulrick2 at faith4miracle.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 February 2005 10:10 pm, Ankush Grover wrote:
> > hey,
> >
> > did you update usbutilits and udev rpms also.For the problem you are
> > facing i will definitely look for some solution.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Ankush
>
> Hello, Donald :)
> I had EXACTLY the same thing happen to me. Anksuh advised me to update those
> items just like he suggested to you. Like you, I had all the stable updates
> installed. But, I had gotten so tired of rebooting to get rid of zombie
> processes, and get full functionality back on our USB2 devices, that I
> thought I would update those RPM's from Rawhide. Guess what? My devices
> have not dissappeared since! All is now well here :)
> I even tried an experiment: I plugged our scanner into one of our six USB2
> ports, and scanned a 600dpi image. No problem. I unplugged it and
> IMMEDIATELY replugged it into another USB2 port and scanned the same image at
> the same dpi. Again, success. I repeated this test four times, four
> different ports, no problems. Most of the time my devices would dissappear,
> but I also experienced functionality issues with our two devices. Now I have
> even burned quite a few cd's over a week or so, and all is well!
> I would update the RPM's (from Rawhide) that Ankush said to update. I will
> tell you all of the ones that I updated, but try what he said first, and see
> how things go:
> I updated:
> hotplug
> usbutils
> udev
> kernel
> initscripts (I thought I would update that as well, since I would be running
> FC3 with a Rawhide kernel. Our system booted fine Without updating
> initscripts, but on the other hand, it has been running beautifully ever
> since, With initscripts from Rawhide. YMMV.)
>
> Our uptime looks like this:
> 00:02:40 up 5 days, 16:57, 4 users, load average: 2.87, 2.40, 1.40
> That is a big deal for me, because I had to reboot every time that full
> functionality was not restored after plugging a device in a different port.
> I did reboot everytime that a zombie process got started because of running a
> command related to a device that had dissappeared, but of course, all of that
> is in the past now.
> Also, check out my message to this list on this same thread, that I sent after
> everything started working perfectly again:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-February/msg03565.html
>
> Have a Great Day,
> Steven P. Ulrick
>
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