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On Sunday 01 January 2006 4:35 pm, John Botwright wrote: > On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 03:09:40PM +0000, Simon Robert wrote: > > I am attempting to connect a lifedrive to mandriva 2006 > > I also had problems using USB Palm peripherals (under RedHat). > > 1) check /dev/ttyUSB0 exists > if not, create it using; mknod /dev/ttyUSB0 c 188 0 Caution on that - you shouldn't have to create the node yourself - it may being created dynamically - and note the next problem: > 2) export PILOTPORT=/dev/ttyUSB0 Not necessarily. Many devices take up two ports and actually use: PILOTPORT=/dev/ttyUSB1 for communication. If you only create USB0, you'll get nowhere. > 3i ) modprobe uhci > ii) modprobe usb-serial There are problems there too - modprobe visor may be needed in some cases. Generally, such module shenanigans is done elsewhere in recent distributions, the days of doing such things yourself should soon be behind us. > N.B. You might get problems using either uhci or usb-uhci as the usb hub > driver. Why oh why are there two drivers? One works for my webcam and > the other for my flash drive, but not both! Why else? These are proprietary devices - why should they cooperate? -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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