Sent this yesterday, but it seems that I didn't respond to the confirmation soon enough, so it was never distributed...
And to update a bit: 1. I discovered that the harddrake and hotplug services were not set to start at boot, so I manually started them, and set them to start at boot. 2. lspcidrake -v still gives me the same result, even after a reboot (due to the hang I mentioned earlier today). Is there some table I have to update or something to get the device to be recognized from the id? 3. There's no /etc/fstabs entry for this device. Do I need to add one manually, or should hotplug do this for me? How do I know what device this would be in /dev? Anything else I should be looking at? Ron ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Trying to get usb cd burner working Date: April 20, 2004 17:43 From: Ron Hunter-Duvar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi all, I'm trying to get my clunky old Micro Solutions Backpack CD Rewriter running under 10.0 CE on my clunky old Dell Dimension XPS R400 desktop (so that I can backup my personal files before upgrading to 10.0 Official). I've installed the driver RPM available from http://www.micro-solutions.com/software_library/linux/index3.html (thanks Micro Solutions for providing a Linux driver). Now what? The device shows up as Unknown/Others in the Hardware -> Hardware section of MCC, with the following details: Vendor: (null) Bus: USB Description: Module: unknown Media class: lspcidrake -v gives me the following line: unknown : unknown (0ac9/0000/ffff/ffff) I know this is the right line, because it disappears if I unplug the burner. On http://www.linux-usb.org/ I see the following in the list of Linux USB devices: 0ac9 Micro Solutions, Inc. 0000 BackPack CD-ReWriter It says somewhere else on this site that this device has been supported since 2002. I'm seeing the right device id. So why doesn't it recognize the device? Any hints would be greatly appreciated. BTW, I'm a total newbie to Linux - Mandrake 10.0 CE download is my first Linux install, and it'll be 6 weeks tomorrow. I am a techie though, and have some Solaris sys admin experience more years ago than I care to admit. So I can track down a problem when I have to, but I prefer when things just work. So far Mandrake is great. I had to disable power management to keep it from making my display all wonky (black and white horizontal stripes, jailbird style), and I still can't get my sound working. But I'm waiting to see if Official fixes that. Oh, and I've yet to get a successful update from Mandrake too. Otherwise, it's been smooth sailing, other than the inevitable learning curve. I can tell you that it's easier to administer than the NT 4.0 that it replaced (good riddance!). Been meaning to take this plunge for a while, but couldn't find the time (thanks in part to the Microscum treadmill). Anyway, enough babble. -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net ------------------------------------------------------- -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net
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