USB Issues with FC5

[Fred]

On Thursday 20 July 2006 13:33, Ben Scott uttered thusly:
> On 7/20/06, Fred <puissante at lrc.puissante.com> wrote:
> > I am having 2 USB issues with FC5:
>
>   Do you have anything USB which is working?  Maybe it's not detecting
> the USB interface controller properly or something, and thus never
> seeing your printer or your camera.
>
>   Check the system log (/var/log/messages file).  Also try these commands:
>
> dmesg - After plugging in a USB device, does the kernel log anything?
> lsusb - List what USB devices the system knows about
> lspci - List PCI devices (to see if USB controller is present)
> lsmod - See if USB kernel modules are loaded
>
> -- Ben

I have a few USB devices working, like the mouse, keyboard, and a hard drive 
or two. They work perfectly fine. Also, the lsusb does show the devices in 
question -- my camera and the printer.

The USB kernel modules are *definitely* loaded, as I configured them when I 
built the kernels. And I've scrounged the kernel configuration for anything 
else that might be related. So I am most likely missing some userspace 
driver or utility of some sort.

I know that Fedora left out fstab-sync which *auto*-mounted these devices in 
lieu of a desktop solution, but I think they may have left out other things 
as well. I can't recall the name of the filesystem that USB memory devices 
like cameras and memory sticks use. Is it "usbfs"? Or something else 
entirely? mount simply no longer recognizes the camera when it once did. 
Probably a big clue, but like an idiot I upgraded both my laptop and my 
workstation without checking these things out first. I really *didn't* 
expect Fedora to leave out something vital. Oh well, I'll know better the 
next time.

I think this transitioning into more marketing-related areas must be frying 
my brain. You can be the best software engineer in the world, but it means 
diddly if -- well -- the market for that has dried all up! :-)

I know the, um, market for SEs have gotten better -- somewhat -- since the 
dot com crash, but I've already have myself established. Now all the 
head-hunters call me -- after all these years! -- and I always have to say 
"where the hell were you when I needed ya?" 

But I digress...

-Freedom Fred