USB Issues with FC5

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On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 12:24 -0400, Fred wrote:
> Subject: USB Issues with FC5
> Date: Wednesday 19 July 2006 15:58
> From: Fred <puissante at lrc.puissante.com>
> To: "Undisclosed.Recipients": ;
> 
> Hello, all.
> 
> I am having 2 USB issues with FC5:
> 
> 1) My Digital Camera (HP Photosmart M517) is set to "drive emulation", and I
> used to be able to mount it as a drive under FC4, but this stopped working
> under FC5. I understand that Fedora deliberately left some things out of
> this new distribution, much to my chagrin, but not sure what in regards to
> this issue.
> 
> 2) Same goes for my printer (HP OfficeJet G55), worked like a champ under
>  FC4 over the USB, but now I am having a dilly of a time getting it working
>  under FC5. Even after installing the same drivers from HP.
> 
> Has anyone any ideas? Or is Fedora going anti HP? Any suggestions would be
> highly appreciated and gleefully accepted. 

I moved from FC3 to FC5 with no difficulties, but I only use external
drives and usb memory units - no cameras or printers.  The FC5 usb
support does try to be smarter about auto-mounting and such.  Could
there be some old fstab entries that are no longer compatible?  The USB
stuff now mounts under /media.

Hopefully there are some useful error messages in the logs.

> I am actually tempted to switch
> to a different distribution, but am loathe to since Fedora is better
> supported by the hosting services on dedicated servers, and my development
> environment needs to reflect that. Perhaps I should back-rev to FC4, but I
> don't like running legacy distros for obvious reasons.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -Freedom Fred
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