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Manually Installing PCI USB card [SOLVED]


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Hey All;

This is a first for me, but I bought a new USB PCI (Belkin) card once I had already did a fresh installation of MDL 10.1. So now when I boot up, the Card is not being detected properly. The module is compilied into the kernel that much I do know already. Even USBView is not seeing the card properly. My question is how do I go about manually configuring the files (What goes in which files) to get my USB card working in Linux ? Anyone know of any HWTs ? Thanks in advance :)

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is this a data-storage card? if yes,try first with editing your fstab file. your usb-devices are usually detected as sdx devices. so a fstab entry could look like this:

 

/dev/sda /mnt/usb auto,user,noauto,exec 0 0

 

or, if sda doesn't work

 

/dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb auto,user,noauto,exec 0 0

 

don't forget to create the /mnt/usb folder.

 

once this is done, the relevant usb-device- icon should show up in your data-manager (konqueror/nautilus) and you should be able to mount it now.

 

if this is not a data-storage card, ignore this post. :P

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It is not a data storage card, it is simply a Belkin 5 port USB 2.0 (PCI) controller card which allows to use other USB Devices. I am pretty sure that I have to add some modules lines to the /etc/modprobe.conf as well, but I am not sure what they are. I have finally found some useful information that I can try when I get off work tonight. Will keep adding and posting. It also appears that they are no longer using the /etc/modules.conf file for specifying modules boot up, so I am still trying to figure out where all the configurations information has to go now. Thanks.

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