SUSE 10.1 USB and NIC problems

[tinylund]

I am a newbie to the Linux world and have installed SUSE 10.1 on a Dell PC. When I do a /sbin/ifconfig the ETH0 entry appears for the NIC, but I don't have any activity lights on the NIC. I also have a scanner connected to one of the USB ports and a ScanDisk Titanium thumb drive in the other USB port, but cannot access either of the devices. I went into YAST>Hardware>Hardware Information and I see the ScanDisk drive under the USB section as /dev/sg0 but I can't access it and I don't see the scanner at all.

Thanks in advance for your assistance,
Jason

[Grimmed]

You've tryd this all in root?

If not, log off.
Change the name into root
And insert the root password.

Else its some driver that isnt accepted with linux. I got some my own. There are many things and ways to solve these problems. Though i don't realy know what usb ports these are.

Are they on-board or in a usb-hub?

[monday90]

For a USB hard drive to show up as sg0 sounds very wrong to me. From a command prompt you could try

mkdir /mnt/ScanDisk this creates a directory in /mnt to mount your disk in.
su -c "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/ScanDisk" you will be prompted for the root password this attempts to mount sda1 (what my USB drives are picked up as) in /mnt/ScanDisk. If successful you will then be able to browse the contents of your USB drive in that location.

Do you see anything in YaST>Hardware>Scanner?

from a command prompt again try
lsusb

what is the output?

[tinylund]

Grimmed,
Yes, I tried as root. Both the USB ports are on-board and not on a USB hub.

Monday90,
Thanks for the mount command, it worked for the SanDisk thumb drive, but I still don't understand why the Yast>Hardware>Hardware List was showing the thumb drive on /dev/sg0.

The lsusb command returned the following information:

Bus 001 Device 009: ID 0781:5200 SanDisk Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

It is seeing the thumb drive, but the scanner is not being recognized. I even tried to add the HP ScanJet 4200c manually, but the scanner doesn't respond.

Any ideas on the NIC, the ifconfig command lists the ETH0, but the NIC itself does not indicate any activity.

Thanks again,
Jason

[monday90]

I had a quick look and found this
http://hp4200-backend.sourceforge.net/
It looks like the only way of getting it to work. You can find out what version of sane you have by typing sane-config ---version.

As for the nic do you have anything networked to it you can ping? This is a good test to see if it is working. Its entirely possible that the driver for your nic doesn't support activity lights.