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? -- seth / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
