Laptops :: USB Detection Problem?

Hello all

First ley me introduce myself , Can click on icons , move files around, and get the blue screen of death quite quickly. You gussed it , I can drive the car but dont have much idea of whats going on under the hood

I installed DSL, as me and Mr Gates arent quite seeing eye to eye on a fundamental issue

So not only are the laptops in unsafe hands, but I am a complete new fella on the Linux block

SOOO FAAR ,,I like it , DSL has some great features, X kill etc

But

One of my laptops , a Sony Vio ( old ) Celeron?

( not the new one ..but the old Steam powered one ( thats whats on the sticker , designed for 98 )4 Gig , 64 ram ..doesnt want to know my USB
The other lap top a fujitsu pentium 3 128 ram 20 gig works just fine.

EXCEPT .....

If you swap usb drives ie take one out and plug another in ...it doesnt recognise the new USB.

BOTH are running the 2,4.6 kernel , the only thing I can see in the Sony is the bios doent mention USB , ( in windows XP it worked fine if slow and it was always running off the HD )

any help

Please dont get all technical on me .... please ....

I really want to make this linux work as it looks real good

( the sony only uses 30% ram when running ..how cool is that !!)

Stephen

sony builds in a feature that only lets you run the sony recovery cd that comes with the system to install there system back on. i personally had nothing but problems with those things. are you trying to install or just run from the usb? also what DSL version are you running?

Quote (kerry @ July 17 2006,06:16)

I am running the current version , ( not to sure how to tell ) went back to the site I downloaded it from and it said current 50980 loaded on 26/6/06 so I assune it the latest one !
The sony doesnt recognise the Usb portable hard drive, In dmesg it found then disabled the usb ,,,bot sure exact as I dont know what I am looking for ...

Stephen

If I know what I am looking for and where I could have a stab at fixing it

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