USB probs.... Again =(

[Digit0]

Ohh dear,

OK. Mandrake 9.1 newly re-installed with and a ASUS MoBo A7N8X (Nvidia drivers installed and detected, even the USB2).

My problem (and I have no idea why) is that the USB ports seem only to detect my USB mouse?!!? I install a USBkey try to mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/whatevermount and I keep on getting this error mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device
. Tried installing my Epson USB scanner (which was working before) and it can't find it. I do a /sbin/modprobe usb-storage
and nothing seems to happen. I do dmesg and it says Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
Yet it still won't find /dev/sda. Anyone know what's going on? Heres the dump from lsmod hope it helps:

odule Size Used by Tainted: P
sd_mod 13100 0 (autoclean) (unused)
usb-storage 72952 0 (unused)
nls_cp437 5148 0 (autoclean)
smbfs 40144 0 (autoclean)
ipx 21252 0 (autoclean)
nls_iso8859-1 3516 1 (autoclean)
isofs 27988 1 (autoclean)
zlib_inflate 21156 0 (autoclean) [isofs]
sg 34636 0 (autoclean)
parport_pc 25096 1 (autoclean)
lp 8096 0 (autoclean)
parport 34176 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
nvidia 1672832 10 (autoclean)
audigy 70952 1
ac97_codec 12488 0 [audigy]
sound 70644 0 [audigy]
soundcore 6276 0 [audigy sound]
ipt_ttl 1176 1 (autoclean)
ipt_unclean 7416 2 (autoclean)
ipt_limit 1560 34 (autoclean)
ipt_state 1080 5 (autoclean)
iptable_mangle 2712 0 (unused)
ipt_LOG 4280 1
ipt_MASQUERADE 2104 0 (unused)
ipt_TOS 1592 0 (unused)
ipt_REDIRECT 1336 0 (unused)
iptable_nat 21048 0 [ipt_MASQUERADE ipt_REDIRECT]
ipt_REJECT 3640 0 (unused)
ip_conntrack_irc 4304 0 (unused)
ip_conntrack_ftp 5200 0 (unused)
ip_conntrack 27264 4 [ipt_state ipt_MASQUERADE ipt_REDIRECT iptable_nat ip_conntrack_irc ip_conntrack_ftp]
af_packet 14952 1 (autoclean)
iptable_filter 2348 1 (autoclean)
ip_tables 14648 14 [ipt_ttl ipt_unclean ipt_limit ipt_state iptable_mangle ipt_LOG ipt_MASQUERADE ipt_TOS ipt_REDIRECT iptable_nat ipt_REJECT iptable_filter]
sr_mod 16920 2 (autoclean)
floppy 55132 0
nvnet 30688 0 (autoclean) (unused)
3c59x 29584 1 (autoclean)
ohci1394 19048 0 (unused)
ieee1394 45900 0 [ohci1394]
nls_cp850 4316 3 (autoclean)
vfat 11820 3 (autoclean)
fat 37944 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
nls_iso8859-15 4092 4 (autoclean)
ntfs 76812 1 (autoclean)
supermount 15296 3 (autoclean)
ide-cd 33856 0
cdrom 31648 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
ide-scsi 11280 1
scsi_mod 103284 4 [sd_mod usb-storage sg sr_mod ide-scsi]
usbmouse 2936 0 (unused)
keybdev 2720 0 (unused)
mousedev 5268 1
hid 20900 0 (unused)
input 5664 0 [usbmouse keybdev mousedev hid]
usb-ohci 20584 0 (unused)
usbcore 72992 1 [usb-storage usbmouse hid usb-ohci]
rtc 8060 0 (autoclean)
ext3 59916 5
jbd 38972 5 [ext3]

[SuperNu]

On your scanner problem, it looks like you don't have the scanner module loaded. Use sane-find-scanner to get the vendor ID and product ID. Then when you instert the scanner module, use vendor=XXXXX product=XXXXX where XXXXX is the output from sane-find-scanner and your scanner should start to function. Since I am not a Mandrake user, I don't know if there is an easier way to get your scanner working, or how to have your scanner module loaded automatically on system initialization. If you need more help, you could always click on the search button at the top of the JL page and search for Epson Scanner. You will get a lot of hits for that. Hope this helps.

--SN

[Digit0]

Thanks for answering Supernu,

I suppose my real question is what on earth happened su hot plug? I mean it installed no problems before (previous installation of MDK 9.1) all on its own and mounted the scanner when I pluged it in. I actually have tried adding it manually in the MDK control center but when I fire up sane it saiz comunication error. =( I think I'm gonna have 2 apply the old windowz remedy when things refuse 2 work-reinstall (no damn it!! It can't be that hard... out you demons of stupidity!!!!)

[mrBen]

Try modprobeing usbdevfs

(for your pendrive)

[Digit0]

nop that did not work.. Gueeerrr this issues are such a pain =( ..out I say out!!!