All,
I recently purchased a Sony Vaio PCG-Z505JE. There is a page
for it off of the Linux Laptops page:
http://larve.net/people/hugo/2000/07/linux-vaio
Anyway, on several pages with similar laptops it is mentioned that
the ``Plug And Play OS'' option (in the BIOS) needs to be turned
off in order to use USB and sound. The problem is that when this
option is turned off I can't configure the internal ethernet card
w/o the laptop completely hanging (yes, hanging). With the option
turned on I can run pump, or ifconfig w/o any worries.
I have a second problem wrt USB. I have tried this with the ``Plug
And Play OS'' option turned off and with it turned on. I have patched
kernel 2.2.16 with the USB backport from here:
http://www.suse.cz/development/usb-backport/
It compiled just fine and I'm running the kernel now. Here's the problem.
Several web pages suggested that these steps needed to be run:
(I'm attempting to access my usb floppy)
o modprobe usb-storage
- this works great. When I do this it loads the usb-storage module along
with the usbcore and scsi_mod module.
o echo "scsi add-single-device 1 0 0 0" > /proc/scsi/scsi
- i do this and then if I cat the ``/proc/scsi/scsi'' file it
says ``Attached devices: none''.
o I then try to mount the floppy with ``mount -t ext2 /dev/sda /mnt''.
The sd_mod module is loaded and it tells me that /dev/sda is not a
block device.
Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
Even if I can access my USB device, if I have to turn off Plug And Play OS
in the BIOS I then can't use my ethernet card! Anyone have any suggestions?
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seth / moc.llubdoog@htes
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