Digital Parasite
02-17-2005, 04:53 PM
I have been seeing that a lot of people are having problems with Knoppix not be able to recognize their USB flash/pen drives at all.
In my case, I have a Kingston 512MB USB flash drive with a FAT32 partition. I have tried booting Knoppix 3.7 on an HP laptop, IBM Thinkpad laptop, and Toshiba laptop using the CD. I have tried both booting with the USB drive already in the machine before powering it on, and also inserting the USB device after Knoppix has finished loading. Doing an lsmod shows that the usb_storage is there.
If I boot from the CD using "knoppix26" to load the 2.6.9 kernel, it never works. No icons ever appear on the desktop and I cannot mount the device manually by using /dev/sd? or /dev/ud? (where ? = a,b,c,d).
If I boot from the CD with the defaul setting that loads the 2.4 kernel, it always works. I always get icons on my desktop and I can always mount/access the the USB drive.
Anyone have any idea how I can get this working with the 2.6 kernel or what is wrong here? I also tried another brand of USB drive and got the same results. If I stick the USB drive into a machine running Fedora Core 3 with th 2.6 kernel, it sees the drive find and I can mount it without any problems.
Thanks in advance.
In my case, I have a Kingston 512MB USB flash drive with a FAT32 partition. I have tried booting Knoppix 3.7 on an HP laptop, IBM Thinkpad laptop, and Toshiba laptop using the CD. I have tried both booting with the USB drive already in the machine before powering it on, and also inserting the USB device after Knoppix has finished loading. Doing an lsmod shows that the usb_storage is there.
If I boot from the CD using "knoppix26" to load the 2.6.9 kernel, it never works. No icons ever appear on the desktop and I cannot mount the device manually by using /dev/sd? or /dev/ud? (where ? = a,b,c,d).
If I boot from the CD with the defaul setting that loads the 2.4 kernel, it always works. I always get icons on my desktop and I can always mount/access the the USB drive.
Anyone have any idea how I can get this working with the 2.6 kernel or what is wrong here? I also tried another brand of USB drive and got the same results. If I stick the USB drive into a machine running Fedora Core 3 with th 2.6 kernel, it sees the drive find and I can mount it without any problems.
Thanks in advance.