On Wednesday 16 March 2005 21:29, Charles Rodgers wrote:
> Hi Kaj,
>
> On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:14:13 +0100, you wrote:
> >I've never come to grips with this.....U(seless) S(illy)
> > B(ugger).
>
> I was mystified by this problem because as far as I was aware I
> had not done anything that could have changed the setup here
> (10.1 with KDE). It was working, then it wasn't :-((
> So I persevered, exploring the possibilities of a problem with
> connections.
> The problem then became intermittent. I have two USB cables,
> one end of each which fits the camera or the card reader. One
> of those cables has a clip-on ferrite bead at the end that has
> the smaller of the two plugs.
>
> I re-booted with the ferrite beaded cable plugged directly into
> the motherboard at the back of the PC.
> Plugged in the camera - magic :-)
> Plugged in the card reader - magic :-)
> Both auto sensing, no problem.
>
> I guess the cables are not too well shielded and that maybe the
> ferrite bead at the camera end prevents any stray capacitances
> from getting onto the motherboard.
>
> I like to use the card reader as a small file transporter between
> the Windows box (upon which I'm still slightly dependant) and the
> Linux box.
>
> My dependency upon Windoze is because I still can't get the
> printer to print landscape from Linux, and when I print
> photographs it's the other way round !!!
>
> I remember reading that Anne had some trouble with temperamental
> USB connections - so maybe it's worth giving ferrite beads a try.
> --
> Charles
Thanks, Charles. Good advice. I use my camera as a transport medium
between my daughters PC ( with WinXP - not connected to anything
but the power outlet, of course) and my own box. I noticed that
the order of devices is important : my scanner has to be last, the
camera first. The other way around the CPU runs amok, cluttering my
desktop with endless, strange icons. Maybe I'm too lazy to connect
things to the rear of the box ?
Kaj Haulrich.
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