Re: USB flash disk

[Sridhar M.A.]

On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 05:47:02PM -0500, H. S. wrote:
   > >On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 01:32:41PM +0100, Cristian Toraci wrote:
   > >   > I recently installed a Sarge with kernel 2.6.8. When I plug my USB 
   > >   flash disk > it doesn't work. The syslog messages are:
   > >   > 
   > >   > Nov  7 12:25:51 localhost kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage 
   > >   driver...
   > >   > Nov  7 12:25:51 localhost kernel: usbcore: registered new driver 
   > >   usb-storage
   > >   > Nov  7 12:25:51 localhost kernel: USB Mass Storage support 
registered.
   > >   > Nov  7 12:27:16 localhost kernel: usb 1-3: new high speed USB device 
   > >   using > address 4
   > >   > Nov  7 12:27:21 localhost kernel: usb 1-3: control timeout on ep0out
   > >   > Nov  7 12:27:26 localhost kernel: usb 1-3: control timeout on ep0out
   > >   > 
   > >I tried the latest kernel 2.6.9 from debian unstable. As soon as I
   > >plugged in the disk, the machine froze. Thankfully, unplugging it
   > >brought back the machine to life.
   > >
   > >Compiled my own kernel (2.6.9). The flash disk worked well. No problems.
   > >But, nvidia drivers do not install. Googling for that showed similar
   > 
   > I also tried compiling vanilla 2.6.9 which went okay. I then tried to 
   > build nvidia driver but got an error of something like __VMALLOC_RESERVE 
   > was undefined. Googling a bit suggested I put this line in 
   > /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nv/nv.c :
   > unsigned int __VMALLOC_RESERVE;
   > Putting is just after the include statements worked fine -- 
   > module-assisstant successfully built the module. You may try that too if 
   > that is the problem you are encountering.
   > 
Thanks a lot. That worked.  
   
   > I am using 2.6.7 debian kernel and USB sticks and flash card readers 
   > work fine for me. Since I started using udev, they also get mounted and 
   > unmounted automatically. If anyone wants details on how to do that, just 
   > let me know. Haven't tried that in 2.6.9 (vanilla) though.
   > 
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Regards,

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