[GRLUG] usb stuff

[topher at t1kdevelopment.com]

On Tue, 22 Jun 2010, Michael Mol wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 3:42 PM,  <topher at t1kdevelopment.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 22 Jun 2010, Michael Mol wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 3:04 PM,  <topher at t1kdevelopment.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I have a sansa clip that works great in linux.  Every now and again
>>>> though,
>>>> plugging in USB things seems to not be noticed, or only half noticed by
>>>> my
>>>> system.
>>>>
>>>> For example, my clip is usually loaded at /dev/sdb when I plug it in.  At
>>>> the moment, it doesn't get anything at all in /dev/.  However, lsusb
>>>> lists
>>>> it just fine.
>>>>
>>>> What might be broken, and what should I restart to get it back?
>>>>
>>>> Topher
>>>
>>> Check dmesg. It could be a race condition where the device doesn't get
>>> itself initialized before the kernel/hotplug/udev asks it for some
>>> stuff related to creating device nodes.
>>
>> There's this:
>>
>> usb 2-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 18
>> hub 2-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1
>> usb 2-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 19
>>
>>
>> But it doesn't mean much to me.  :(
>
> You should see some mentions of SCSI after that; flash drives are
> operated as SCSI devices.

Nope, those are the last three lines of dmesg.

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