lonewolfonline

Don't know if this helps or not, but my system crashed when I closed the laptop lid. I rebooted the system with the flash drive plugged in, but not the ZTE modem, and there on the desktop was the flash drive icon. I was also able to install the ndiswrapper driver for my wireless card, but now the ZTE won't connect at all, just hangs on "please wait". Also the "start" menu has changed - its more "vista" than it was before the crash. I don't know what's going on here... Maybe another problem.

Anyway, the flash drive seems to be working now, I'll play around and try to fix the modem.

Thanks for the help

Regards

Tim

Hi Ian, Thanks for the help. Unfortunately I do not have any other USB sticks to test, but I will try and borrow one to test.

Below are the results for lsmod | grep -i usb when the stick is connected.

[lonewolf@localhost ~]$ su
Password:
[root@localhost lonewolf]# lsmod | grep -i usb
usbtouchscreen		  9988  0
usbmouse				4896  0
usbhid				 41056  1 usbmouse
ff_memless			  5544  1 usbhid
usbserial			  30696  3
usbcore			   122444  10 usbtouchscreen,usbmouse,usbhid,uvcvideo,wacom,usbserial,uhci_hcd,ohci_hcd,ehci_h
cd
[root@localhost lonewolf]#

With the device disconnected:

[root@localhost lonewolf]# lsmod | grep -i usb
usbtouchscreen		  9988  0
usbmouse				4896  0
usbhid				 41056  1 usbmouse
ff_memless			  5544  1 usbhid
usbserial			  30696  3
usbcore			   122444  10 usbtouchscreen,usbmouse,usbhid,uvcvideo,wacom,usbserial,uhci_hcd,ohci_hcd,ehci_h
cd
[root@localhost lonewolf]#

Connected again after exiting console, re-opening and su.

[root@localhost lonewolf]# lsmod | grep -i usb
usbtouchscreen		  9988  0
usbmouse				4896  0
usbhid				 41056  1 usbmouse
ff_memless			  5544  1 usbhid
usbserial			  30696  3
usbcore			   122444  10 usbtouchscreen,usbmouse,usbhid,uvcvideo,wacom,usbserial,uhci_hcd,ohci_hcd,ehci_h
cd
[root@localhost lonewolf]#

And the full output from dmesg:

[root@localhost lonewolf]# dmesg |tail -n 15
usb 1-8.1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
scsi3 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 12
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
usbcore: deregistering interface driver usb-storage
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
scsi4 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
usb-storage: device found at 12
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
usbcore: deregistering interface driver usb-storage
[root@localhost lonewolf]#

lsusb -vv gives me too much info and scrolls past the console buffer. How do I direct output to a text file?

Thanks again,

Tim

How do I get the flash drive recognised? It shows up in KInfoCenter

If I unplug the stick this element disappears, when I plug it back in it reappears - deffinatly the correct entry. Just need the dev name or something.

Thanks

Thanks Ian

I have just got my ZTE modem working so I am online, just can't download much at the moment (1GB/month and I already downloaded Mandriva!)

I also managed to download, extract and install Firefox 3 which I'm quite chuffed about!

Here are the results from fdisk

Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0334f5f5

  Device Boot	  Start		 End	  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *		   1	   10198	81915403+   5  Extended
/dev/sda2		   10199	   30402   162275328	7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda5			   1		1019	 8185054+  83  Linux
/dev/sda6			1020		1528	 4088511   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7			1529	   10198	69641743+  83  Linux

I tried mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb and get mount: special device /dev/sdb1 does not exist.and I tried all letters upto sdg1 all with the same.

ls /dev/s shows

sda		 sda7		shm/		snapshot	st1
sda1		sequencer   slamr0	  snd/		stderr
sda2		sequencer2  slamr1	  sr0		 stdin
sda5		sg0		 slusb0	  sr1		 stdout
sda6		sg1		 slusb1	  st0		 systty

Thanks again

Tim

Hi,

I'm a new user to linux, just installed it yesterday and I'm trying to get online. Apparently my broadcom 4328 wireless card isn't supported nativly so I have to use the ndiswrapper. I downloaded the driver and put on a usb stick (from Windows) but I cannot access the drive. I have tried a number of searches and tried the suggestions, but I just cannot get this to work.

I found one thread about changing the icons (Configure Desktop, Behaviour, Icons) but nothing. I also tried manually mounting the drive - I have created /mnt/usb and tried to mount it using

su

mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb

But it tells me that an ntfs is not correct file system. I reformatted under windows as fat32 and tried with -t vfat but it still tells me about wrong filesystem type.

The device is shown under USB devices in KInfoCenter, however if I run dmsg |tail -n 15 after inserting the stick I get this message:

usb 1-8.1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...

scsi9 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices

usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage

USB Mass Storage support registered.

usb-storage: device found at 18

usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning

usbcore: deregistering interface driver usb-storage

Does this mean its unsupperted or something is not loaded?

The device is a Corsair Flash Voyager 4GB and I am using Mandriva 2008 Spring.

I am a long time windows user looking to make the switch. I am trying to setup my HP TX1250 laptop and I have already wiped Vista - no turning back or taking the easy way out!

I think I may have many questions coming up soon...

Thanks for any tips you can give me on this matter.

Kind Regards

Tim