SuSE 9.1 won't see USB camera when hotplugged too many times

[Napalm Llama]

That's not strictly true, but it doesn't mount it.

lsusb gives me:

Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 007: ID 03eb:3301 Atmel Corp. 4-port Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 04b4:aef6 Cypress Semiconductor Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

without, and

Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 008: ID 07b4:0105 Olympus Optical Co., Ltd Camedia C-700/C-3040/C-4000 Zoom Camera
Bus 002 Device 007: ID 03eb:3301 Atmel Corp. 4-port Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 04b4:aef6 Cypress Semiconductor Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

with, but unfortunately I don't know enough about mounting things (still new enough not to have had any experience at it) to get the contents of the camera to appear in my filesystem.

It normally turns up automatically in /media/usb-storage-somegreatbignastyhexnumber, but no such luck.

There's a
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0
entry in my /etc/mtab, so I tried mount usbfs - it told me this:

mount: usbfs already mounted or /proc/bus/usb busy
mount: according to mtab, usbfs is already mounted on /proc/bus/usb

In my desperation, I even tried temporarily removing the usbfs line from my mtab, but that only resulted in the 'according to mtab' error disappearing.

I expect there's a fairly simple way around this, but unfortunately I don't know it. I'm hoping there's somebody reading this who does...

[dylunio]

try to mount with

su
[rootpass]
mount /dev/sda1 /media/usb-storage-somegreatbignastyhexnumber

dylunio

[Napalm Llama]

It says
mount: mount point /media/usb-storage-000270C91366:0:0:0p1 does not exist


I think the main problem might be /proc/bus/usb being busy.

Is there any way of un-busy-ising it?

(Although of course I'm open to other suggestions...)

[dylunio]

try this:

su
[rootpass]
mkdir /mnt/usb
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb

dylunio

[Napalm Llama]

That doesn't seem to work, either:
splig:/home/nl # mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb
mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device

Thanks for your time so far...

[dylunio]

ok try the above but with different sd** devices, start with , sda1, sda2, sda3, sda4 etc, and then sdb1, sdb2, sdb3, sdb4, etc, and then sdc1 etc, and then sdd etc,

You might be able to get the drive with the code

fdisk -l

as root, but I can't remember;

dylunio

[Napalm Llama]

No, sorry - I tried sda1 thru sdd8, but I get the same error.

fdisk -l gives me this:

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77545 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1       61464    30977824+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2           61465       77545     8104824    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5           61465       62480      512032+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hda6           62481       77545     7592728+  83  Linux

What do you think about the un-busy-ing idea?

[edit]
Yeah, so I've got a whopping Windoze partition - it's no bias - just all of my stuff is on there and I can't be bothered to move it. Just you wait an see the fdisk -l for my shiny new 200GB SATA - W95 FAT32? What W95 FAT32?

[blanc-de-poulet]

ok if it says it s already mounted, the right drivers aren't there
all you have to do is load the UHCI drivers for instance
on my 2.6.11-5 it's

modprobe uhci_hcd

then if u

lsusb

it should list your devices.
Then you should be able to mount your /proc/bus/usb

JD

[Napalm Llama]

OK cool - next time it does it I'll give that a try.

Thanks.