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I just installed FC3 on a sony S260 laptop. I cannot get the built-in memory stick to work. If I monitor dmesg and /var/log/messages while I insert and remove a memory stick I see no relevant information added.
Distribution: Distribution: RHEL 5 with Pieces of this and that.
Kernel 2.6.23.1, KDE 3.5.8 and KDE 4.0 beta, Plu
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Looks like everything is there. The only other driver I know of is ohci.hcd. try ' modprobe ohci.hcd '
Lets see the output from:
fdisk -l
cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Running out of options. Run ' usbview ' and see if it sees anything.
Just a quick thought. It could be the kernel. If usbview hangs then I would upgrade to the 2.6.10 kernel. Some USB devices failed on the 2.6.9 kernel. If you have an older version installed try it. Like 2.6.7 start with that one.
Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 131 1052226 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda2 * 132 170 313267+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 171 3369 25695967+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 3370 7296 31543627+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 3370 4580 9727326 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 4581 5498 7373803+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 5499 6072 4610623+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 6073 6333 2096451 83 Linux
/dev/hda9 6334 6397 514048+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda10 6398 7296 7221186 83 Linux
also there is no /proc/scsi/scsi file
(not even a /proc/scsi dir)
# cat /proc/scsi/scsi
cat: /proc/scsi/scsi: No such file or directory
usbview shows me 4 devices
3 UHCI Host Controllers
and 1 EHCI Host Controller
I have 2 usb ports on the laptop and they work fine. I have a firewire port that I have not tested.
If I run 'modprobe ohci.hcd ' I get this message:
FATAL: Module ohci.hcd not found.
I cannot mount the device because there is no device for the memory stick in /dev If I insert a usb device into one of the usb ports on the laptop it shows up as sda1
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