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

From: Ron Youvan (ka4inm@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Fri Sep 12 2008 - 09:36:25 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.

   I would also double check to see which kernels are being loaded by 10.3
and 11.0, a driver version mismatch could explain your symptoms.

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