I always had problems compiling usb-storage directly into the kernel.  You
might have better luck compiling it as a module, seems to work better.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Sherohman [mailto:esper at sherohman.org] 
> Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2002 2:47 PM
> To: TCLUG
> Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Basic USB help
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 12:02:03PM -0500, Brian D. Hicks wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 11:38:45AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> > > $ ls /proc/scsi/                
> > > aha152x/  scsi  sg/  usb-storage-0/
> > 
> > I'd suggest you cat /proc/scsi/scsi and make sure the reader is 
> > listed, for one.
> 
> Nope, it's not.  /proc/scsi/scsi only shows the CD-R drive.
> 
> > I'd also make sure that the drive is listed in usbview (and 
> make sure 
> > that usb-storage is listed under the Name: of it's interface)
> 
> usbview complains that it can't open /proc/bus/usb/devices 
> and says to make sure the kernel has USB support (the dmesg 
> output I sent earlier seems to confirm that) and the usbdevfs 
> filesystem is mounted.  Which it isn't.  So, referring to 
> linux-usb.org:
> 
> # mount -t usbdevfs none /proc/bus/usb 
> mount: mount point /proc/bus/usb does not exist
> # mkdir /proc/bus/usb
> mkdir: cannot create directory `/proc/bus/usb': No such file 
> or directory
> 
> (Not that I'm surprised to see mkdir fail under /proc...)
> 
> OTOH, according to /usr/src/linux/.config:
> 
> # CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS is not set
> 
> As for what _is_ set:
> 
> CONFIG_USB=y
> CONFIG_USB_UHCI=y
> CONFIG_USB_STORAGE=y
> 
> I suppose I'll turn on the "Preliminary USB device 
> filesystem" and see what that buys me...
> 
> > Are you sure the media is partitioned, formatted, and mount 
> is using 
> > the right filesystem?
> 
> I formatted it (presumably as vfat) with the camera.
> 
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