Fedora Users — Re: usb storage devices

Ican't imagine why your having a problem. I have since Red Hat 9 had zero problems with USB ports or devices connected theron. I even have a thing I got from Best Buy that stays connected and when I push in my digital camera memory stick, it becomes just another hard drive to Linux. I have Bluetooth and all the other stuff turned on and it works fine in my Core 2.

Dale Raby wrote:

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

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