Re: [SLUG] Lost my usb, parallel printer, and MB sound chip

From: Ron Youvan (ka4inm@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Fri Sep 12 2008 - 08:57:34 EDT


> Something weird. Decided to install SuSE 11.0 with KDE4 to check it out and
> keeping my workhorse SuSE10.3. (different hard drives) Now when I boot up
> 10.3 I do not have any usb recognition, my sound chip is not even seen, and
> the printer is not recognized.

> A look at the boot log or dmesg makes no mention of the usb devices. There is
> a line in fstab for usb. Following:

> usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0

> Nothing of usb to be seen in /proc/bus either.

   I would suspect (having never installed SuSE) that fstab or 10.3's MBR got changed
during the install, I would compare your backup's of etc directory with what you have now.

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    Ron  KA4INM - Spell check and proof read your messages to see if you any words out.
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