On Thursday 13 May 2004 22:52, Ben Stringer wrote: >On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 12:25, Gene Heskett wrote: >> But whyinhell do I have to reboot just because a $500 camera is a >> flake? >> >> The usb system can see it connect once only, and once its dropped >> offline, the usb system can only see the reconnect if I reboot >> first. > >Hi Gene, > >As root, try "rmmod"ing then "insmod"ing the usb kernel modules. > This (whilst painful) should reset any problems with your USB > subsystem. > >Eg. > usbcore usb-storage usbdfu hci_usb hid usb-uhc > I thought of that, but then realized I have it all builtin because it doesn't appear to be self-loading. I did make a trial boot as modules, and no usb stuff was operational. With my script its trivial to revert so I did, and now building a 2.6.5-mm6 without some scsi stuff that got turned on somehow, and which I think is getting in the way of running my camera on usb. I'll know in about 30 minutes. Now I'd do them as modules, if they would reliably load, they do by hand at least. All the audio stuff loads automaticly so I'm not sure why the usb stuff doesn't. I did disable a boatload of hotplug stuff quite some time back because it was causeing multiminute delays in booting, and makeing megabytes of logs with errors. >Also check /var/log/messages to see if there are errors being > reported when the USB connection is made and dropped. > >Cheers, Ben -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
