USB not recognized

[garyng]

I was wanting to use a usb solid state hd to store my home directory and config files. However, Knoppix (run from CD) does not seem to be detecting my usb.

I'm brand new to linux and I don't even know what information to give you to help diagnose the problem.

Find out the id of your device, mostly than not, it is not supported by the driver. You may find out more info from 'dmesg'

The USB driver design in Linux is a bit 'strange' I would say, especially for odd device. I need to recompile the usb-storage device driver in order for it to recognize my USB CF reader, even though all it needs is some .H file changes, the logic is all there.