Other Help Topics :: USB 2.0 memory stick compatibility

While my miniscule 1GB USB 2.0 PQI 'Intelligent Stick' PQI Intelligent Stick looks way cool, it isn't recognized by DSL 1.0rc2 (alas), on several different platforms (Epia VIA, SHUTTLE, IBM).

The manufacturer claims it is supported by kernel 2.4.0 onwards, some reviews say 2.6.0 onwards. It certainly is detected & works fine with MS WinXP original on all the machines I've tried, so it does look like a DSL problem.

Any ideas? Anything I could try insmod-ing?

If I wanted to try it with DSL with a 2.6 kernel, any plans to make that available anytime soon?

There are currently no plans (from what I have been told) to ever move to a 2.6.x kernel, for the following reasons.

1. the 2.6.x kernel is several megabytes bigger than the 2.4.x kernel, so it would cramp DSL's functionality.

2. the 2.6.x kernel drops a lot of support for legacy technologies, hardware, etc, and we want to keep DSL functional on as much hardware as possible

3. all major improvements that have occured to the 2.6.x tree have been, and are being backported to the 2.4.x tree, by a very active bacporting team. And even though Linus said he would not participate in the backporting process this time, the demand for 2.4.x kernel maintenence is about the same as the demand for updates and improvements to the 2.6.x kernel, so even he has helped in the process, though not as much as what he does toward 2.6 development. For evidence of this activity, take a look at kernel.org, where you can see, the 2.4.30 kernel was released, just a few days ago.

-J.P.

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On my Lexar 1gig jump drive, I make a temp directory,
"mkdir /flash", and mount the flash drive with:
"mount /dev/sda1 /flash"
I use it from MC as root.

Good luck

Nah, /dev/sda1 is not recognised as a block device... (nor is dev sda1-4, sdb1-4, sdc1-4, sdd1-4, or indeed sda).

The kernel isn't getting it, I fear.

What version of DSL are you running?

If it's an older version (not 1.0rc2), you may have to manually load the uhci-hcd module.

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