Damn Small Linux - Not!

Holmsi · Joined: 19 Jun 2006 Posts: 1 Location: Hull, UK

Hi,

This is the first time I've posted to these forums, and I've recently moved from DSL to DSL-n (both of which are frankly astonishing!). I've been trying to solve some USB troubles, I'm relatively new to linux, it would be great if someone would point me in the right direction.

When using my hard drive install of DSL-n I cant seem to get my USB storage devices to mount. If i boot DSL-n from the CD, I can just mount the drives using something like:

[code:1]mount -t vfat /dev/uba1 /mnt/usbdrive (works a treat)[/code:1]
Sadly, doing the same thing on my HDD install gives a "not a valid block device" error and I cant seem to find any of my USB devices with fdisk either. Hotplug starts up during startup, and I've tried using "modprobe usb_storage" (though somewhat blindly I admit).

Anyone had similar trouble and got it working?
Many thanks in advance,
James

cbagger01 · Joined: 21 Apr 2006 Posts: 27

If you wait 10-20 seconds, can you mount it with:

mount /mnt/uba1

from a command prompt? (Does not need to be a "root" shell)

You also might want to consider a "frugal hdd install", as it more closely resembles a livecd bootup.

Finally, you could try manually loading the USB drivers with:

sudo su
modprobe ehci-hcd (for the USB 2.0 driver)
modprobe usb-uhci (for USB 1.1 UHCI controllers)
modprobe usb-ohci (for USB 1.1 OHCI controllers)

and then try the usb-storage driver and also maybe the hotplug auto-detection.