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mneimeyer

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Missing Usb With Cacko 1.23
« on: December 27, 2005, 01:16:28 pm »
Short version first, after a reflash of Cacko 1.23 my USB connectivity is missing in action.

Longer version: I've had my Zaurus c3100 for a couple months and after being sightly annoyed at the remnants of the Japanese stuff I couldn't read I decided to move to an english OS and flashed to Cacko 1.23. I was VERY happy with it.

Via the USB cable I had communication between the laptop and the Z. (SSH, VNC and Samba to the Z and Ping both ways). My only problem was that I couldn't figure out how to get Internet access through my XP laptop for the Z. Whatever I did to try various configurations between the two devices I got to the point where I had no IP communication between the Z and the Laptop BUT I still could use the Z as a USB Mass Storage device. So I decided that since it was a brand new install I would just wipe it back to zero.

I reflashed with Cacko 1.23 and now I have ZERO usb connectivity with the Laptop (or another desktop) either with USB tcp/ip or as a USB Mass Storage device. Nothing happens on either end. The Laptop (or the other desktop) doesn't even acknowledge there's a device there. When the Z boots I can almost catch something that says (I think) something about cardmgr and usb but there is nothing in dmesg about USB. There ARE some repeated jffs2_scan_eraseblock():Magic bitmask XXX not found at XXX: XXX instead lines... and something about cramfs wrong magic but nothing else that looks like an error or warning.

Searching on this forum I tried the following:
   lsusb gives an error that /proc/bus/usb does not exist.
   lsmod shows nothing loaded.
   modprobe usb returns 'Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.4.20/modules.dep (No such file or directory)'
   The USB cable was tested with another device.

Of course my Compact Flash adaptor is broken, and I hadn't ordered a network card yet so I'm stuck right now with the tools on the Z itself. Any ideas?
« Last Edit: December 27, 2005, 01:17:42 pm by mneimeyer »

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Missing Usb With Cacko 1.23
« Reply #1 on: December 27, 2005, 01:18:59 pm »
Did you reflash to Cacko Lite ?

The Lite version does not have the USB modules loaded. You will have to seperately install the USB modules etc.

The full Cacko version comes with the modules, so no problems there (in general).
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Missing Usb With Cacko 1.23
« Reply #2 on: December 27, 2005, 01:51:30 pm »
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Did you reflash to Cacko Lite ?
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No. This was a full Cacko 1.23. Thanks though.

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« Reply #3 on: December 28, 2005, 09:10:25 am »
Playing some more with it... I thought since "modprobe usb" was returning 'modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.4.20/modules.dep (No such file or directory)' that I would try 'touch /lib/modules/2.4.20/modules.dep' only to find that I don't have a /lib/modules/ directory and can't create one since its on a read only filesystem.

Could this be related to the problem? Or am I not on the right track?

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Missing Usb With Cacko 1.23
« Reply #4 on: December 29, 2005, 01:28:13 pm »
Solved thanks to ThC and pgas on #cacko...

The trick was to su and do...

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mount -o remount,rw /
followed by

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ln -s /lib/modules.rom /lib/modules
and then reboot.