Re: [Scottish] usb2 hard drive not being recognised anymore
On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 05:31:04PM +0100, Thomas McLean wrote: > Hi all, > > First of all for informational purposes I am running Ubuntu Dapper. > > Myself and Kyle (aka bagpuss) tried for a few hours last night by doing > various methods and it still didn't suceed. > > I have a 500gb external usb2 hdd which I have been using for the past > couple of days. Anyway, I rebooted my machine and when I try to mount > the hdd it just says: Are you one the same kernel? Did you apt-get any kernel/udev/hotplug packages since your earlier boot? > '[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /mnt/big > mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist' Are you using udev? > Well at that point I thought I should check to see if the modules are > present and here is the output from that also: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lsmod |grep usb > usb_storage74176 0 > scsi_mod 139496 4 sd_mod,usb_storage,sr_mod,sbp2 > usbcore 129668 4 usb_storage,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd Looks good to me. > dmesg reports this whenever I put in the usb2 cable: > [4294852.023000] usb 4-4: USB disconnect, address 2 > [4295590.979000] usb 4-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and > address 3 > [4295953.814000] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... > [4295953.814000] usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage > [4295953.814000] USB Mass Storage support registered. > [4296229.694000] Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods This is not so good. Have you googled for this? > [4296247.023000] usb 4-4: USB disconnect, address 3 > [4296249.229000] usb 4-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and > address 4 > [4296249.733000] usb 4-4: device not accepting address 4, error -71 > [4296249.835000] usb 4-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and > address 5 Seems like a kernel/driver thing to me. Does the hard disk show up in /proc/scsi/scsi? Also, have a look at the 'lsusb -v' and if need be 'lsusb -vv' output. -- Martin ------- 30 years from now GNU/Linux will be as redundant a term as MERT/UNIX is today. - Martin Habets --- ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] USB memory sticks and SuSE 9.3
It seems time to open up a terminal window (that's Konsole in Suse). After you insert the stick, open the new 'floppy' icon, and get the error message... after all that, type in these commands in the terminal window and send the output here: mount dmesg | tail -100 That should give us a start to figure out what's going on. If you're couragous you could look up a line for 'sda' in the mount output and try to browse that directory. My guess is the floppy icon is used because the filesystem on the USB stick is msdos. Martin ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Open Source Business
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 10:59:48AM +, William Anderson wrote: > Peter George wrote: > > I was primarily curious to hear about others who are actively involved > > in creating open source software, running Sourceforge projects etc. > > ...fork OpenVAS, and I'm sure there are others out there ... lurking > silently in the dark :) I own the ALSA driver for the DBRI audio chip found on Sparcs. Sometimes submit other kernel patches, usually related to sparc32 or ppc architectures or audio-related stuff. Am a member of liblo SF project (Lite OSC (Open SoundControl)), and own liboscqs on SF. Other apps I fix as needed. Usually this is endian-ness stuff. -- Martin --- 30 years from now GNU/Linux will be as redundant a term as MERT/UNIX is today. - Martin Habets --- ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Looking for SPARC32 hardware to test
On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 03:53:37PM +0100, William Anderson wrote: > Martin Habets wrote: > > In order to help fix some 2.6 Linux kernel problems, I am looking for the > > following SPARC32 hardware to test (or have tested): > > do you need physical access to test this stuff, or would ssh access do? ssh access would probably not be enough, apart from the dbri driver test. If the kernel has a major problem, the ssh session usually hangs as well. But with a console a on a serial line I can use the magic sysrq keys to get important data. The serial line would be connected to a machine close by. Physical access would only be needed for a power cycle, e.g. if an SMP kernel fails to boot at all. -- Martin ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] Looking for SPARC32 hardware to test
In order to help fix some 2.6 Linux kernel problems, I am looking for the following SPARC32 hardware to test (or have tested): 1) A machines with one or more Ross HyperSparc CPU's (check for HyperSparc in /proc/cpuinfo). These seem broken after 2.6.10 at the moment, causing disk corruption it seems. 2) sun4m SMP machines (check for type sun4m and ncpus in /proc/cpuinfo). Some fixes for this in 2.6, but more work needed. 3) Machines with an external speakerbox. I need to test my dbri driver for these. The first two items are among the reasons that sparc32 support is being dropped from Debian, so "it-works" reports are also welcome (on any distro). I need not test this personally if you feel up to it. Thanks, Martin --- 30 years from now GNU/Linux will be as redundant a term as MERT/UNIX is today. - Martin Habets --- ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Hopeless newbie question
I usually install 'putty' on windows machines. The pscp lets you copy stuff to Linux without using samba. http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html -- Martin ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Compiling and installing a second vanilla kernel
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 10:10:04AM +0100, Andrew Thomas wrote: > I had assumed that GCC would be installed with SUSE, so it caught me off > guard! Is it just me, or is it quite strange that GCC is not installed by > default? I guess eliminating the very-usefull-but-not-essential is all part of the "strategy" to become an M$ Windows replacement. :) -- Martin ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] New to the group...
Welcome Raj, The only book you need to buy is a C manual. Once you know some C you can look for programs with source code on the web for whatever area you're interested in. Most programs you can think off have already been written. The c compiler program in Linux is called 'cc' (or maybe just 'gcc'). If you don't have that installed get it from your distro. Martin Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] Re: Thanks SLUGgers ! !
Regarding the USB modem: it may be possible to get it working, but it may be kind of an advanced thing. But if you can tell us what manufacturer and type it is, maybe we can give you more advice. The other important thing is your kernel version: run 'uname -r' in a terminal window an tell us the result. (or maybe somebody else on the list knows what kernel Suse 9.1 installs?) Welcome to the future! Martin ___ ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] Re: Usb proxy + list traffic (Craig Perry)
There's an article related to this in the august issue of Linux Journal. Greg (Kroah-Hartman) added an usbfs_snoop parameter to the usbcore module, which you can use to log all traffic. So you'd have to get recent kernel source (it's not in 2.6.5, but is in 2.6.8). Besides that you'd have to write a small application that read/writes /dev/midi* as appropriate. That could be the tricky bit, but probably libusb would make this easier. http://linux.rockriver.net/presentations/LibUsb/img2.html One other thing: On the cable comming from the windows box your Linux side has to act in USB slave mode. I think this has been added in Linux, but I don't know how to set it. The other cable is no problem as all drivers I know use Linux as the master. Martin > How could I setup a box to act as a kind of proxy for a usb connection? > > I.E. Windows box with usb cable to linux box. Usb cable from linux box to usb > device. And the > linux box just passes everything it sees on one port to the other, thus being > transparent to the > windows box and the usb device, so the windows box/usb device interact as normal, > but the > connection is going via the linux box. ___ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] Re: XFree86 4.4 RPMs for Mandrake 10.0? (Fulvio Valente)
Don't know about mandrake, but a lot of distributions are refusing to ship XFree 4.4 because it is on a new licence. If you realy want it, you may have to get it from www.xfree.org directly. I've read about plans on a fork that would remain on the old licence, but have not checked if that has already happended. Martin > From: "Fulvio Valente" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I've been searching for a XFree 4.4 rpm for a while with no success. If anyone can > point me to > or make an rpm, I'll be eternally grateful ___ Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Recommendations on ADSL service/provider? - resend to correct the question
I can recommend Eclipse (www.eclipse.co.uk). Only 1 or 2 connection losses in the last half year. For a modem, go with something with an ethernet interface. Saves you a lot of compatibility hassle. I'm happy with my SpeedTouch 530. I don't use the USB interace on this at the moment although there is code for that out there, but it does serve as a router and DHCP server for my network. Martin ___ Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] End of year BIG archive!
Neil, > Hi - > Season's greetings to all :-) > > I'm doing a big file archive of my years' work, and I want to span it over > several CDs. Thanks for the reminder! > To date, I have used the command > > tar -czPf /home/archive_file.tar.gz \ > big \ > file \ > list \ > which \ > spans \ > home \ > directories \ > for \ > several \ > users > > which works fine for me. I save it as a shell script, and run it from time to > time. > > Now I want to expand the file list to include many more directories, and I end > up with about 4 gig of tar file. Oops! > > If I try to use Karchiver to split the file, it bombs out (I'm on SuSE 8.2, > using Karchver 3.1.1). > > The man page for tar doesn't document how to use the -M switch for a > multivolume archive, so I'd like to ask if anyone has experience of using it, > and how I can split my archive into 650Mb segments. >From my attempts I concluded that -M can only be used if you output to a device, i.e. not with -f. Also, -M does not work with compression -j or -z I think. I think I tried something like the -L flag Ben mentions, but I didn't get anything like that to work with compression. It seems GNU tar can only split an archive before compressing it, which is no use for these purposes. > No doubt there is an easy way to do what I want, and i tried Karchiver to do > this, but no success. If there's an easier way, _please_ tell me how!!! Question is: do you want to be able to restore 1 individual CD? If so, I think each uncompressed tar file must fit on a CD (after it is manually compressed). I did not need that, and I now backup my Linux partitions with something like: tar -cvljf $ArchiveFile --exclude '/tmp' -V "$Label" $Directories After that I write the single big archive file to CD, using the multi-CD capabilities of cdbackup: cat $ArchiveFile | \ cdbackup -d $CDDevice -a "$CDLabel" -m -l $CDSize \ -s $CDSpeed -- -v -m is the multi-CD flag. The script with it all has gotten rather big, but that is also because: - the script can backup to a CD writer on another machine, i.e. cdbackup can be executed on another machine than the tar. Not all machines have a CD Writer after all. - it can do incremental backups. - I archive unmountable partitions (mostly bootstrap) with dd. If interested I've put the full script at http://www.mph.eclipse.co.uk/pub/linux/bkup I also looked at other backup programs out there, but was not satisfied with them. Some could not backup to multi-CD, other were professional style and difficult to configure. Happy backup-ing (or something like that) Martin > TIA, > > Neil Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] The Future of the LUG
> From: iain d broadfoot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * David Irvine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > What about using xml/html? Its fairly well supported thanks to > that internet > > thing. I'm not sure how well word deals with this, but I know it > used to be > > able to export to html. Open office can do html and some word > format, so > > that would bridge the gap between OO and Word, and it would also > make a > > transition to web page fairly easy I imagine. > > > > OO can open most Word files fine, i've found - the very thought of > using Word's > export2html feature for _anything_, *ever* makes me feel dizzy. LOL. The OO format is nothing other than compressed XML. Take an .xsw file for example, unzip it and page it... And with all the political talk I think we have found a perfect "raison d'etre" for the Scottish LUG (versus the Glasgow LUG). With SLUG we can have one interface to all of of Scottish politics, and we can all contact our local MSPs. Martin Perth > cheers, > iain BT Yahoo! Broadband - Save £80 when you order online today. Hurry! Offer ends 21st December 2003. The way the internet was meant to be. http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/evt=21064/*http://btyahoo.yahoo.co.uk ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] Re: slightly OT question
cmp might do the trick. I'd expect the timestamp to be in the header somewhere, so skipping the first 256 bytes should get around that. Another route worth considering is to preprocess the branches and them compare those files. Martin Download Yahoo! Messenger now for a chance to win Live At Knebworth DVDs http://www.yahoo.co.uk/robbiewilliams ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
