General USB

[Jo.Mo.]

I've got an AIPtek Pencam, an Iriver MP3 player, and other various USB Devices, and i've looked all over the internet on exactly how to use them, and all i get are steps after the mount comand, but everytime i mount "sda1" as they all want, i just get an error that it isn't a valid block device, i just need a quick basic guide to exactly how to use USB in linux. it's one of the final things standing in my way from totally switching from windows.

[error27]

can you post the output from...

cat /proc/scsi/scsi

... and ...

fdisk -l

[Jo.Mo.]

john@john:~> cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices: none
john@john:~> fdisk -l
Cannot open /dev/hda
john@john:~>


this is with both my Mp3 player and Pencam attached and turned on

[michaelk]

Have a look at this site.
http://www.linux-usb.org/

Does SUSE have a hardware configuraiton GUI to see if the USB stuff is being recongized?

Check the output of dmesg for messages relating to USB devices.

Take a look at what modules are being loaded i.e. lsmod. Post the output. You might not have all of the scsi modules loaded.

[error27]

yup. michaelk is right.

You need to modprobe some other modules for everything to work. some usb driver modules of some sort.