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

From: Bob Stia (rnr@sanctum.com)
Date: Wed Sep 10 2008 - 22:37:09 EDT


On Friday 12 September 2008 12:49:33 am Paul M Foster wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 04:37:06AM -0400, Bob Stia wrote:
> > Hello Sluggers,
> >
> > Something wierd. 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.
>
> Well, that's sure a bug. The second field of the fstab file is supposed
> to be the mount point. But you don't mount devices in the /proc
> filesystem. It should be /dev, not /proc. Unless you mistyped....
>
Thanks Paul,

Not sure how that could be a bug. This was a working reliable system. Unless
the fstab was rewritten somehow. No, I didn't mistype that was a copy
directly from fstab. I certainly believe what you are saying but I can't
recall ever seeing it mounted as /dev

What does it say in your fstab?

Bob S

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