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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Larry A. McFarland wrote:

> Hello to the list, am momentarily off the lurker mode, as I'm
> frustratingly trying to enable USB on BL 3.40 (big kernel) on an
> older laptop here! Have been reading this list's archives quite
> a lot - and noticed that while Steven (3aoo) stated that 3.40
> works with USB pen drives, I can't get it working. David's USB
> single floppy works perfectly, as does a partial DragonLinux for
> USB.
> I have "insmod'd" ide-scsi, usb-serial, usb-ohci, usb-storage,
> usb-core, and scsi-mod... I get the following message when I try
> a "mount": Mounting /dev/sda1 on /mnt/sda1 failed: Block device
> required
>
> This message is consistent. Any thoughts from the folks here would
> be welcomed...

Hello Larry. I haven't yet tried BL3.40 with any USB devices, having only 
booted into it briefly on a couple of machines where no USB functionality 
was required. I do recall others saying they had problems getting USB mass 
storage devices to work--digital cameras, IIRC. It seems that the kernel 
USB modules for this new kernel (2.2.26) are not widely compatible with 
existing hardware. We should perhaps take your post as a further 
indication that USB mass-storage support under BL3.40 is sort of 
hit-or-miss. Anyone else have observations on this? I do hope to try USB 
mass-storage under BL3.40 at some point, but have so far not managed to 
find the time :(

James