OpenSuse 12.3 newbie here - migrant from Debian 6.
I have a USB cable which I can use for my external HD, or for my Cowan IAudio music player (Mass Storage Device). With my Debian box I can connect either device to the cable (same plug/socket) and they will each appear on the desktop and be accessible through a file manager.
With openSuse 12.3 I can connect the HD successfully, but if I connect my music player instead it does not mount. The player reports it is connected by USB, but the PC will not mount it. I cannot see it in a file manager and it does not appear on the desktop. The HD will apear in /var/run/mnt, but the music player does not. The music player is itself actually a Linux device, so this has surprised me.
Is this a problem with OpenSuse? Can anyone advise how I can resolve this?
On 2013-10-09 10:36, haughtonomous wrote:
> With openSuse 12.3 I can connect the HD successfully, but if I connect
> my music player instead it does not mount. The player reports it is
> connected by USB, but the PC will not mount it. I cannot see it in a
> file manager and it does not appear on the desktop. The HD will apear in
> /var/run/mnt, but the music player does not. The music player is itself
> actually a Linux device, so this has surprised me.
But maybe it is not a “mass storage device”. Maybe it is an MTP thing.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4, with Evergreen, x86_64 “Celadon” (Minas Tirith))
Well it worked for my music player - but if I connect my USB 2 card reader in a similar way, the card is not mounted (always used to). /var/log/messages shows
192.838186] usb 1-1.2.1.1: reset high-speed USB device number 5 using ehci_hcd
but that’s all that happens. The car reader displays a continuous indicator light, that previously would flash as the card was mounted. I would expect the card to appear as a device on the desktop or somewhere. Am I missing something?
The setting I suggested is for older devices - of which I have one; the default setting is for newer MTP devices. I suspect there will be a way to detect which device is inserted and apply the appropriate setting but I am not sufficiently competent in this area to advise you.
First step is to create two versions of /etc/usb_modeswitch.conf, one for each setting. Leave the version you are likely to use most often as /etc/usb_modeswitch.conf.
Assuming the other is /etc/usb_modeswitch1.conf, try
su --
usb_modeswitch -c /etc/usb_modeswitch1.conf
after you plug in the other device.
If this does not work - and it may well not, examine /var/log/messages to find out what actually happened.
neil@study:/etc> su
Password:
study:/etc # usb_modeswitch -c usb_modeswitch_cdrdr.conf
No default vendor/product ID given. Aborting.
Not sure what I am missing here - I have looked through the help screen for usb_modeswitch - should I supply a USB port number or something?
But getting back to the original problem - in Debian and (more recently) Mint ‘switching mode’ was automatic. I didn’t have to do anything and plugging in my card reader, camera, music player, external USB HDD all ‘just worked’ . What is different about OpenSuse in this respect?
When I plug a card into the card reader, this appears in /var/log/messages:
2013-10-19T07:15:06.826310+01:00 study kernel: 375.821312] usb 1-1.2.1.2: reset high-speed USB device number 5 using ehci_hcd
but that is all.
Is this a general Suse problem, or perhaps do I just need to get a different card reader? (My choices seem to be to do that or go back to some Debian-derived distro like Mint or Ubuntu, which would be a pity because I rather like the polished ‘professional’ feel of OpenSuse 12.3)
