Jas Posted March 19, 2005 Report Share Posted March 19, 2005 I have a 512MB SanDisk MP3 player, I'd like to know how i can copy my music to it in mdk 10.1 o_O i hooked it up and tried looking around in /mnt/ and /dev/ but i honestly have no idea what im doing, tried searching google etc on the prob, found nothing, someone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted March 19, 2005 Report Share Posted March 19, 2005 It would show up in /dev as an sd devive. Something like /dev/sda1 or /dev/sdb1 You could then create a mount point like /mnt/mp3 or whatever and mount it to there. If mount complains about the filesystem type, try using -t vfat: # mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/mp3 One you've got that working, add an entry for it into your /etc/fstab file and add the user flag so you can mount it as a user. Or - find out more about udev and hal and enter the Linux mounting solution that is changing the world :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jas Posted March 19, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 19, 2005 last time i tried searching for a solution, i got the same error msg: [root@localhost jas]# mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/mp3 mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted March 19, 2005 Report Share Posted March 19, 2005 Does just plain /dev/sda exist? Try that instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jas Posted March 20, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 20, 2005 (edited) nope, still same error :( [root@localhost jas]# mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/mp3 mount: special device /dev/sda does not exist [root@localhost jas]# mount -t vfat /dev/sdb /mnt/mp3 mount: special device /dev/sdb does not exist why isnt there good plug and play support edit: thought id go to /dev and ls: [root@localhost dev]# ls [root@localhost dev]# ls admmidi hda5 mixer ram7 tty11 tty35 tty59 vcs4 adsp hda6 mouse@ ram8 tty12 tty36 tty6 vcs5 agpgart hdc mouse0 ram9 tty13 tty37 tty60 vcs6 amidi hdd null random tty14 tty38 tty61 vcs7 apm_bios hiddev0 nvidia0 raw1394 tty15 tty39 tty62 vcs8 audio ide/ nvidiactl rd/ tty16 tty4 tty63 vcsa cdrom@ initctl| port root tty17 tty40 tty7 vcsa0@ cdrom0@ input/ ppp sequencer tty18 tty41 tty8 vcsa1 cdrom1@ kmem psaux sequencer2 tty19 tty42 tty9 vcsa12 cdroms/ kmsg psmouse@ sg0 tty2 tty43 ttyS0 vcsa2 console log= ptal-printd@ sg1 tty20 tty44 ttyS1 vcsa3 core@ loop/ ptmx shm/ tty21 tty45 ttyS2 vcsa4 discs/ loop0 pts/ snd/ tty22 tty46 ttyS3 vcsa5 dmmidi loop1 ram0 sound/ tty23 tty47 ttyS4 vcsa6 dsp loop2 ram1 sr0 tty24 tty48 ttyS5 vcsa7 dvd@ loop3 ram10 sr1 tty25 tty49 ttyS6 vcsa8 dvd2@ loop4 ram11 st0 tty26 tty5 ttyS7 vmmon fb0 loop5 ram12 st1 tty27 tty50 urandom vmnet0 fd@ loop6 ram13 stderr@ tty28 tty51 usbmouse@ vmnet1 fd0 loop7 ram14 stdin@ tty29 tty52 vc/ vmnet8 fd1 md/ ram15 stdout@ tty3 tty53 vcc/ zero floppy/ md0 ram2 tts/ tty30 tty54 vcs full mem ram3 tty tty31 tty55 vcs1 hda mice ram4 tty0 tty32 tty56 vcs12 hda1 midi ram5 tty1 tty33 tty57 vcs2 hda2 misc/ ram6 tty10 tty34 tty58 vcs3 Edited March 20, 2005 by Jas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted March 21, 2005 Report Share Posted March 21, 2005 nothing looks right...that's weird. what do you see if you type 'dmesg' immediately after plugging it in? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jas Posted March 22, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2005 (edited) hmm.. [root@localhost dev]# dmesg edit; nothing here about mp3;x Edited March 23, 2005 by Jas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted March 22, 2005 Report Share Posted March 22, 2005 holy mackerel, lots of people are trying to hack your machine. In other news, there's absolutely nothing there about your MP3 player, which means either the shorewall output is so fast it's scrolled the stuff about the MP3 player out completely, or it's not detected at all. Could you try dmesg | grep usb please? that straight line is a pipe symbol, hold down shift and press the backslash \ key to get it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jas Posted March 23, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2005 (edited) ok, just tried that: [jas@localhost jas]$ dmesg | grep usb usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using address 2 usb 2-1: control timeout on ep0out heh, it works fine under linspire though ;x without having to toy around or waste any time doing anything, just plug it in and it works.. heh why cant mandrake be more like that, noticed my wireless "just works" with it too ;\ Edited March 23, 2005 by Jas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkelve Posted March 23, 2005 Report Share Posted March 23, 2005 About your wireless, could be your card is a "Wireless-G" card (802.11g support). Linspire 5 has improved support for those. And pretty good hardware support overall. Another good distro for wireless would be SuSe, although I'm not sure if 9.2 already offers (or if 9.3 *will* offer) 802.11g support. You can download the full version of SuSe 9.3 from their FTP servers some time after it is out (somewhere May/June I think) and Linspire will have a LiveCD of their Five-O version, but that is not out yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted March 23, 2005 Report Share Posted March 23, 2005 bah - compile your own kernels and suddenly all distros work with your hardware. Distro hardware support is usually only as a result of that distro's kernel - go vanilla and the problems subside. I have my custom kernel that I use with Gentoo / Arch / Ubuntu and everything works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkelve Posted March 23, 2005 Report Share Posted March 23, 2005 bah - compile your own kernels and suddenly all distros work with your hardware. Distro hardware support is usually only as a result of that distro's kernel - go vanilla and the problems subside. I have my custom kernel that I use with Gentoo / Arch / Ubuntu and everything works. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hmmm... not everyone wants to compile kernels SoulSe... The effort put into the extra hardware support is just another sort of added value to a distro. I think users *should not* be obliged to compile kernels. But I also think users should check HW compatibility first before buying blindly... and I think companies need to be more active in writing drivers. And I think... uhm... I think I'm ranting now... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jas Posted March 23, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2005 so er, any idea what i should do about my mp3 player? lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted March 23, 2005 Report Share Posted March 23, 2005 jas: that's a kernel error, yeah, pretty much a dead end. You'll need either a newer or older kernel (the Linspire version you tried will have one or the other compared to the MDK version you tried, which is why it worked), which means either build one yourself or try a newer or older MDK version or a different distro. Oh, whoops, totally forgot the other thing to try - run the Control Center, go the bootup configuration, and disable APIC. Then reboot and see if it works. If that doesn't work, yeah, see the suggestions above. BTW, when comparing wireless support, make sure to make a *fair* comparison. Don't compare Linspire to MDK's free version, as Linspire is not 100% free software. Compare it to the commercial version. Decent 802.11g support in a free software distro is pretty much impossible, as just about every single 802.11g card requires something that is not free software, at minimum the firmware. If you don't like this, write to the card manufacturers and tell them to make their specs open and their firmware open source. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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