On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 11:59:25AM +0100, Benedikt Grundmann wrote: > > I recently bought debian 3.0 (pre) from Lehmanns (a German bookstore). I > installed it on my laptop. (Fujitsu - Siemens Lifebook). I already have > Windows 98 installed and I just copied the first CD of the 4 CDs onto a > windows partition. After that I did a regular install using a bootdisk > from that windows partition. > > The problem is the cdrom drive is an external one made by freecom connected > to the laptop with a USB Cable also made by freecom. (As far as I know > this cable has its own controller) I wasn't able to get it run with one of > the shipped precompiled kernels, so I compiled a kernel myself 2.4.9-686. > > I included scsi support, scsi cdrom support, usb support, uhci support ( I > tested both drivers) usb storage support and freecom usb/atapi bridge > support. Now after inserting the usb cable the cdrom was recognized and > installed under /dev/sr0. Mount worked and I was able to use ls, cd but as > soon as I read one of the files -- For examples Packages.gz -- The message > freecom reset called appears.
I must say I'm not an expert, but I have been using a USB cdrom (actually cdrw), and I'm a little surprised that yours is on /dev/sr0. I don't know what that device corresponds to, but perhaps you could try /dev/scd0 (which should be the first scsi cd-rom drive, and the usb drive pretends to be a cd-rom). This is only a guess, though, but I figured I'd point it out since it's a difference between what you did and what I did. > Afther that experience I installed a new kernel (from the internet ormal > tar.gz not debianized) 2.4.14 same configuration. The problem remains but > now it already starts when mounting the cd. Hmmm. This is a kernel I was using until recently, and had no problems... > I believe this is a bug in the driver but I'm not sure which one though I > decided to post my problem in this mailing list. Please if anybody knows > anything helpfull tell me. Even if it's just the mailing-list I should > post it. I'm afraid I may not have been very helpful, but perhaps switching to /dev/scd0 will do the trick. If not, then I'm at a loss. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
