After recently upgrading from Fedora 16 to 17, I found that USB disk mounts in KDE were failing: Could not mount the following device An unspecified error has occurred Not Authorized I finally found a workaround at http://www.suurmeijer.net, and I … Continue reading
3.4.0 was running OK, but then got a whole lot of … BUG… Bad RSS Counter… errors, and USB devices stopped working correctly (after plugging in ‘tethered’ phone, when network went down) So… Back to 3.3..on my main system… … Continue reading
Now I have tried with (according to the wiki..) known/good power supply (Nokia) and – allegedly good – hub (Logik) and am getting the same errors, and disconnect of the USB Ethernet connection.. usb 1-1.2: new high speed USB device … Continue reading
Kernel 3.4.0 just released… Not on kernel.org yet, so downloaded from github (https://github.com/torvalds/linux). The latest version of the NVIDIA linux drivers (295.53) already supports kernel 3.4x, and the latest ‘weltall‘ patch for VMware (8.0.3) also supports this kernel version, so … Continue reading
After all the Pi excitement, back to (relative) normality.. I upgraded my main (x86_64) systems to Fedora 17, using YUM, as usual.. I have found that using the DVD is messy, and sometimes leaves the system in a ‘hybrid’ state, … Continue reading
After many fruitless attempts to cobble together a working USB hub setup for the Raspberry Pi, I came to the conclusion – after trying all the USB/mains power adapters I had (from various phones and other accessories), that the power … Continue reading
Thought I would try a couple more options, just in case.. First, I confirmed that the USB sound card works connected directly to one of the Pi USB ports (using a USB extension cable): usb 1-1.2: new full speed USB … Continue reading
Another option I just tried turned nasty very quickly… I wondered what would happen if all external USB devices were connected via the (powered) hub, but the answer was soon apparent: usb 1-1.3.1.1: reset low speed USB device number 6 … Continue reading
My Raspberry Pi had been behaving itself on the ‘hardware’ side since I took possession of it, weeks ago. After reading about limitations of USB connectivity, I obtained a reasonably-priced powered USB hub, with the intention (not surprisingly!) of connecting … Continue reading
Not Linux-related this time… I should confess that I actually do use Windows 7 frequently, for HD Video processing and editing using Sony Vegas Pro and Cineform (on a stand-alone system), and for colour slide restoration using Photoshop (Win7 on … Continue reading