Guest beerendan Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 Hi - I cannot seem to find any forum topic that specifically deals with my problem - I have Mandriva Free 2007.0 - iv urpmi'd it to bits and still when I plug any number of my usb devices (from hard drives to memory sticks, cameras etc) they are not detected more often than they are. Its become a real point of frustration as I am considering buying an external hard drive to hold all my music but i dont want to buy finding that it says nothings there. I am not extremely proficient with Linux but I have reasonable experience - all i literally want is for my hotplugable devices to be just that!! In the start up verbose it indicates that mass storage is detected but wen fully loaded - zip. Oh and yes my usb stuff works perfectly in windows XP which iv luckily held on to. Mandriva is perfect bar this one problem - major problem... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted July 16, 2007 Report Share Posted July 16, 2007 All mass storage devices should work without problem. Are you sure they're not actually being found? Have you checked whether a directory for the device exists under /mnt or /media after you plug it in? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted July 16, 2007 Report Share Posted July 16, 2007 A longshot, but if you are using VirtualBox to run windows in an emulated environment and have usb devices enabled, I get that type of anomalous usb detection at times after shutting down VirtualBox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coverup Posted July 17, 2007 Report Share Posted July 17, 2007 Do you use one of the ports on the PC or do you have a hub? I have a similar problem when I am using a 4-port USB hub. The keyboard and mouse work fine since the day they were plugged in, but my Palm pilot often fails to connect, and I have a string of error messages in /var/log/messages about the device not accepting address. Once I connected directly to one of the ports on the PC, the problem's gone... Another amusing story about USB: I have a nice `space saver' mousepad with a USB hub which is not detected at all - the same message again "the device not accepting address, error -71" etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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