I have another piece of this puzzle. From the GUI menu System: Tools/Network Device Control, then click on "configure", the USB devices are immediately detected. I don't understand... but at least it works... now why won't my printer work? Sorry... need a new thread. On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 00:10:35 -0600, Steven P. Ulrick <ulrick2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wednesday 16 February 2005 10:10 pm, Ankush Grover wrote: > > hey, > > > > did you update usbutilits and udev rpms also.For the problem you are > > facing i will definitely look for some solution. > > > > Regards > > > > Ankush > > Hello, Donald :) > I had EXACTLY the same thing happen to me. Anksuh advised me to update those > items just like he suggested to you. Like you, I had all the stable updates > installed. But, I had gotten so tired of rebooting to get rid of zombie > processes, and get full functionality back on our USB2 devices, that I > thought I would update those RPM's from Rawhide. Guess what? My devices > have not dissappeared since! All is now well here :) > I even tried an experiment: I plugged our scanner into one of our six USB2 > ports, and scanned a 600dpi image. No problem. I unplugged it and > IMMEDIATELY replugged it into another USB2 port and scanned the same image at > the same dpi. Again, success. I repeated this test four times, four > different ports, no problems. Most of the time my devices would dissappear, > but I also experienced functionality issues with our two devices. Now I have > even burned quite a few cd's over a week or so, and all is well! > I would update the RPM's (from Rawhide) that Ankush said to update. I will > tell you all of the ones that I updated, but try what he said first, and see > how things go: > I updated: > hotplug > usbutils > udev > kernel > initscripts (I thought I would update that as well, since I would be running > FC3 with a Rawhide kernel. Our system booted fine Without updating > initscripts, but on the other hand, it has been running beautifully ever > since, With initscripts from Rawhide. YMMV.) > > Our uptime looks like this: > 00:02:40 up 5 days, 16:57, 4 users, load average: 2.87, 2.40, 1.40 > That is a big deal for me, because I had to reboot every time that full > functionality was not restored after plugging a device in a different port. > I did reboot everytime that a zombie process got started because of running a > command related to a device that had dissappeared, but of course, all of that > is in the past now. > Also, check out my message to this list on this same thread, that I sent after > everything started working perfectly again: > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-February/msg03565.html > > Have a Great Day, > Steven P. Ulrick > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
