Newbie needs USB help!

jigs · n00b Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 24

Hi,

im trying to get my usb file system working, and honestly i have no idea if what i have already tried has got it working or not! Anyway, i need to connect 3 things via usb. A printer, a bluetooth widget thingy and flash drive. If someone could pretty much hold my hand through the steps that would be great as sometimes i get lost with what i'm doing. I'm running AMD64 3000, gentoo 2.6.9 r14 and kde with a via82xxx mobo. Any help much appreciated :lol:

Benson · Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 9:55 am Post subject:

Hy jigs,

if you get a little more specific, i am sure we can lead you through installing/configuring whatever it needs to get your usb-devices working! So first, what do you mean with "usb file system", never heard of that - do you mean an external harddisk connected via USB???

Concerning your 3 devices:
- the usb printer, please give us the name and model of the manufacturer of your printer
- bluetooth widget: are you using kde? Witch manufacturer/model?
- flash drive: personally i don't know much about it, but if you give mor infos about your flash drive i'm pretty sure someone will be able to point you the right direction (e.g. kernel options you have to select)

Ah, and maybe you could update your kernel, actually we have 2.6.11. It fixes some bugs and has better looking at the changelog, the usb-drivers should have better performance.

rgds
Benson

theothermatt · Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 10:43 am Post subject:

I can try and help with the flash drive. Mostly they're all pretty similar. Need some more info though:

- did you use genkernel to configure and build your kernel, or did you do it with make menuconfig etc...?
I think that probably if you used genkernel, all the options you need will be there. Otherwise you'll probably need to build a new kernel with the right options.

- anything else about the flash drive that might be useful.

Matt
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jigs · n00b Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 24

Pretty much i don't know if i have correctly configured the usb ports correctly and im not quite sure how to mount the printer, flash drive and bluetooth. I'm pretty sure its more my lack of knowledge as apposed to bugs in the kernel. I did build the kernel as a stage 3 with genkernel, but ive since had to rebuild it once for support of my mobo. I have to play a game of basketball right now but i'll be back on in a hour or so to keep plugging away at it.

jigs · n00b Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 24

OK i'm back, the printer is a canon i560, the flash drive is a direct pc and the spirit is the brand of the widget. I just need to set them up through usb and i'm not sure how to mount them or what ever needs to be done. Like i said i'm not really a very knowledgeable linux user.

Benson · Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 2:00 pm Post subject:

Ok, here we go - first off, we have a look at your printer. There's a thread about canon-printers and drivers made by canon, have a look at this thread how to use those drivers. Seems like cups doesn't have drivers for it, so you have to install these drivers first. There's a tutorial, but if you read through the thread you see that there's already an ebuild - go to https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61955 and download the ebuild (take the last one). This should work with it, but i cannot guarantee.

And make sure that if your printer is connected via USB to your computer that you have enabled USB-Printer Support in the kernel:

jigs · n00b Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 24

yeah you were right, im not to sure where to put that ebuild. i get to /usr/portage and then im not sure where to go from there, i had gone through that tutorial already and there is actually some new rpms on the jp canon site that had the drivers for the 560 in it so i used those in stead.

I also tried to go to localhost but it says that the connection was refused. I'm using kde and mozilla firefox.

theothermatt · Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 2:21 pm Post subject:

ok first thing then, we need to check that you've got the right modules and they're loading.
plug in the usb flash drive, and do:

theothermatt · Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 2:24 pm Post subject:

sorry, probably should add that you need to do

jigs · n00b Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 24

cheers,
[code]usb 1-6: new high speed USB device using address 13
scsi11 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Vendor: USB Model: Flash Drive Rev: 1.12
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
SCSI device sda: 507901 512-byte hdwr sectors (260 MB)
sda: assuming Write Enabled
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
/dev/scsi/host11/bus0/target0/lun0: unknown partition table
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi11, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi11, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0
USB Mass Storage device found at 13[/code]

thats all that looks like it makes any sense, theres a whole pile more stuff
[code]atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0x81 on isa0060/serio0).
atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e001 <keycode>' to make it known.
atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xd9 on isa0060/serio0).
atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e059 <keycode>' to make it known.[/code]

im not sure what that means???

this is what came out of my lsmod
[code]Module Size Used by
usblp 13824 0
vfat 14592 0
fat 47904 1 vfat
w83627hf 33320 0
eeprom 10144 0
i2c_sensor 4224 2 w83627hf,eeprom
i2c_isa 2688 0
i2c_viapro 8204 0
sata_via 8324 0
libata 45448 1 sata_via
r8169 21000 0
snd_via82xx 28900 0
snd_ac97_codec 76416 1 snd_via82xx
gameport 4992 1 snd_via82xx
snd_mpu401_uart 8192 1 snd_via82xx
nvidia 4055164 12
ide_tape 36128 0
st 40868 0
sbp2 25608 0
ohci1394 33668 0
ieee1394 117592 2 sbp2,ohci1394
usb_storage 68800 0
ohci_hcd 21124 0
uhci_hcd 31520 0
ehci_hcd 30852 0[/code]

Benson · Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 2:31 pm Post subject:

To use the ebuild, you have do put it into a special directory. I have this little howto more or less from another thread:
1. download the ebuild
2. open /etc/make.conf and make sure you've set "PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage" (without the quotes. you may specify another path)
3. mkdir -p /usr/local/portage/net-print/bjfilterpixus/
4. mv bjfilterpixus560i-2.4.ebuild /usr/local/portage/net-print/bjfilterpixus/
5. open /etc/portage/package.keywords (if it doesn't exist create it)
6. add "net-print/bjfilterpixus560i ~x86" (without the quotes and with the appropriate architecture)
7. ebuild /usr/local/portage/bjfilterpixus/bjfilterpixus560i-2.4.ebuild digest
8. emerge -pv bjfilterpixus

OT, but whenever you want to emerge an ebuild that's not in the official portage dir (/usr/portage/...) you should place the ebuild in this overlay-directory (/usr/LOCAL/portage/...) and try to put it into subfolders the same way it's done in /usr/portage !!!

Now if you do step 8 you should see that portage wants to install the ebuild from /usr/local/portage. Hope i didn't forget anything, if so an there is an error, post it here. Hope this helps to get the canon-driver installed.

rgds
Benson

jigs · n00b Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 24

i forgot to add in the part about the printer aswell

[code]usb 5-1: new full speed USB device using address 3
usbcore: registered new driver usblp
drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver
drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 3 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x04A9 pid 0x1086
[/code]

bpkri · Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 2:38 pm Post subject:

Just a warning,a s I have just been through the USB-madness with a VIA82xxxx chipset...

I have onboard USB 1.1 - which works somewhat. I think it works pretty good for small mounts of data, like mouse, scanners, joysticks, card readers and USB sticks. However USB drives can be a problem. Not that they are slow, that's pretty normal with USB 1.1, but with large files (note: Files, not large amount of files) of several hundred MBs, I at some point get IO errors. So if you encounter these problems, good luck with solving them. I only encountered those problems with large amounts of larger data ( More than 1 GB of moer than 100MB size of files).

I also had problems with an additional USB 2.0 card, also with a VIA chipset. EHCI did not work at all (USB 2.0), UHCI (USB 1.1) with the same problems I already emntioned. Additionally sometimes the kernel did not realize, that a new device had been connected.

So, if you encounter those kind of problems, I can only give you one advice: switch over to a USB root connecter (e.g. a USB PCI Card) with a chipset from NEC. No errors and connection troubles since I use those.

Oh, and good luck

USB and linux still does not seem all THAT stable to me, but with the right choice of hardware it works like a charm

jigs · n00b Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 24

bastard now you got me worried

yeah i followed what you had in those 8 steps and this is where i encountered some errors, and im wasn't to sure what the amd64 architecture should be represented as so i just put ~AMD64, is that correct???

[code]bash-2.05b# ebuild /usr/local/portage/bjfilterpixus/bjfilterpixus560i-2.4.ebuild digest
!!! doebuild: /usr/local/portage/bjfilterpixus/bjfilterpixus560i-2.4.ebuild notfound for digest
bash-2.05b# emerge -pv bjfilterpixus

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies !!! aux_get(): ebuild path for 'net-print/bjfilterpixus560i-2.4' not specified:
!!! None

emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "bjfilterpixus".
[/code]

jigs · n00b Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 24

These problems are the last few i have for installing gentoo, and because they are fairly important to me, is it worth using a dual boot with gentoo and windows. Plain and simple, linux may be more powerful, but the time that im spendingto get everything working is almost far outweighing its usefulness. Maybe i just jumped to far to quickly and expected to much of kde, gentoo and linux. Maybe im just talking jibberish cos i'm half concussed after a elbow to the head in basketball. Anyway im gunna sleep on it and get ready for my C++ class tomorrow!
seeyas tomorrow, thanx for the help today people

theothermatt · Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 3:19 pm Post subject:

hmmm that's interesting. I have a via82xxxx chipset too, i've never had any problem!
I have no idea what that error from atkbd.c is about
You seem to have the modules you need. You say you had to rebuild the kernel for support for your board?
What did you change? I mean, what modules did you add in, did you compile them as modules or built in to the kernel?

On the topic of gentoo in general, it is possible that Gentoo is not the ideal distro for someone with no linux experience.
I personally started with Mandrake, and graduated to Gentoo-hood! My experience is that you have to put more into linux, but you get so much more out of it. And with Gentoo, you learn a HELL of a lot about how your computer and your operating system actually work. It does get easier once you get used to how things work. Keep trying, it really is worth it :-)

Have fun with C++, i always do, I like the language!
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jigs · n00b Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 24

yeah, what is that error caused by? any ideas anyone and any idea how i can fix it? I loaded the support for the mobo as modules, because it was in the forums that i had to to get my sound working.

Btw how do i update my kernel to the latest one?

jigs · n00b Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 24

So i had a quick look around and it appears that the error with the atkbd.c is a common error not to be worried about, according to this topic.

Which means i should be able to get the path of the usb devices currently plugged in.

Do these lines lead me anywhere on that path: