-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 14 October 2004 9:55 am, Walt Sawyer wrote:
How do I get my SanDisk cruzer mini 256 mb pen drive to mount on my Fedora Core 2 laptop? Thanks in advance Walt
HI Walt, I always double check to insure that USB devices are supported by Linux. One place to check is: http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/ It helps to know the vendor ID and device ID of your device before checking this site, since sometimes the marketing name of the device changes (or varies in different countries). You can find the vendor and device IDs with the command "lsusb" or the GUI "usbview", or "cat /proc/bus/usb/devices". In my experience, with this info, and consulting the aforementioned website, if the site says it works, it will work. I checked your device and it appears that it should work, but double check with the vendor and device IDs to be sure. If usbview (or the others) sees the device, that's good, but it doesn't always mean that the device will work with Linux. The hotplug system should have installed the kernel modules for you. If you try "fdisk -l" (letter ell), you should see a new SCSI device (that's how USB "disks" (pen drives, etc) show up). It would be in the form: /dev/sdXY. If fdisk doesn't show it, check your kernel modules and your system log (/var/log/messages). Yes...I've been through this a few dozen times..... :-) often to no avail. Be careful what you purchase. I've also discovered that some flavors of kernel 2.6.x have problems with USB. After communicating with Greg Kroah-Hartman (kernel USB developer), he fixed a couple of things, and then I ended up moving to kernel version 2.6.8.1. I had fewer problems with the later 2.4 kernels, but thankfully 2.6.8.1 is working nicely for my USB devices. Later, Andy - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBbytZHl0iXDssISsRAtLgAJ9gR8OtvONdQKkfmVi44KVrVst4RQCeKo4p eBJojmRxM3/E1dpGEvgMpGQ= =6hEI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----