I’m pretty new to Linux and all of this, so go easy on me…
First, I have a MyBook 320GB external harddrive NTFS formatted. And it won’t mount in my OpenSuse Linux 11.1. I Googled about it, but I don’t get the instructions found here. What do I install to be able to use my MyBook?
Second, I got a “Brother” Printer DCP-185C. I Googled for the drivers and found them, but how and what do I install?
Brother Solutions Center : Brother Driver for Linux Distributions
That the right place?
Try here
HowTo Mount NTFS Filesystem Partition Read Write Access in openSUSE 10, 11
I didn’t see your printer here
OpenPrinting database - Printer Listings
The link you gave might come in handy. But first try this method with your printer
CUPS - Explained - openSUSE Forums
hi
welcome to the Opensuse forums;
whilst caf is right that your printer is not on the Openprinting list that I could see; Brother are regarded as providing good drivers;
tell us first if you are using 32bit or 64bit Suse; (64bit suse sometimes needs symbolic links to point to needed libraries)
this page
Brother Solutions Center : Brother Driver for Linux Distributions
from the one you already located; (well done!!); gives a howto
Suse uses rpm packages; so you need both the lpr and the cupswrapper driver;
so you will download both to a downloads directory? (that is what we call ours);
then you can either right-click n on each rpm package; (lpr first and select “Install with package manager”: that way YaST does the trick;
or use a terminal: Brother probably recommend a terminal;
and you would assume root powers to install the packages;
so: 32bit or 64bit?
understand terminal? let the forum know;
you can see that on the Brother instruction page they talk about
Step 5a. (for USB Connection) Check your printer on the cups web interface
5a-1. Open a web browser and go to “http://localhost:631/printers”
that is the CUPS step caf recommended; but you seem to need to install lpr and cupswrapper first
Yeah, I tried that, but I’m VERY new with linux. Anyway, from what I know so far, (Which isn’t much.) I think I have this problem…
HowTo Mount NTFS Filesystem Partition Read Write Access in openSUSE 10, 11
Whats that for? It matter?
But you said it wasn’t in the database?
32bit and uh, you got me a bit confused there. :\ So what do I do first?
You might want to note this thread
can not install Brother-printer - openSUSE Forums
download the .rpm files
Licence Agreement
Install.
Then
Licence Agreement
Install
How?
Open a terminal in the download location of the rpm’s and go su
Install command is
rpm -ihv packagename.rpm
to make it easy, after you type: rpm -ihv (enter the first letters of the package eg: cldcp185pr then hit TAB and it will complete
then hit enter
Are you connecting your external hard disk via USB?
If so, do the following:
(1) Start up your machine without connecting the external hard disk.
(2) Open a terminal (Press Alt+F2, type konsole and press Enter).
(3) Type the following:
su
tail -f /var/log/messages
(4) Connect the USB cable from the hard disk to the machine and power on the hard disk if it needs external power.
(5) You will see few messages coming up on the screen. Post those messages here.
Ok, got the printer working, now I still need help with the hard drive.
Here…
May 6 12:57:35 linux-x9lu kernel: usb 2-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 8
May 6 12:57:35 linux-x9lu kernel: usb 2-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
May 6 12:57:35 linux-x9lu kernel: scsi6 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
May 6 12:57:35 linux-x9lu kernel: usb 2-3: New USB device found, idVendor=1058, idProduct=1100
May 6 12:57:35 linux-x9lu kernel: usb 2-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
May 6 12:57:35 linux-x9lu kernel: usb 2-3: Product: My Book
May 6 12:57:35 linux-x9lu kernel: usb 2-3: Manufacturer: Western Digital
May 6 12:57:35 linux-x9lu kernel: usb 2-3: SerialNumber: 57442D574341525730373831333231
May 6 12:57:35 linux-x9lu kernel: usb-storage: device found at 8
May 6 12:57:35 linux-x9lu kernel: usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
May 6 12:57:36 linux-x9lu kernel: scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access WD 3200AAJ External 1.65 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
May 6 12:57:36 linux-x9lu kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 625142448 512-byte hardware sectors: (320GB/298GiB)
May 6 12:57:36 linux-x9lu kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
May 6 12:57:36 linux-x9lu kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
May 6 12:57:36 linux-x9lu kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
May 6 12:57:36 linux-x9lu kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 625142448 512-byte hardware sectors: (320GB/298GiB)
May 6 12:57:36 linux-x9lu kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
May 6 12:57:36 linux-x9lu kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
May 6 12:57:36 linux-x9lu kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
May 6 12:57:36 linux-x9lu kernel: sdb: sdb1
May 6 12:57:36 linux-x9lu kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
May 6 12:57:36 linux-x9lu kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
May 6 12:57:36 linux-x9lu kernel: usb-storage: device scan complete
From su terminal Try:
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media
Got this…
$LogFile indicates unclean shutdown (0, 0)
Failed to mount ‘/dev/sdb1’: Operation not supported
Mount is denied because NTFS is marked to be in use. Choose one action:
Choice 1: If you have Windows then disconnect the external devices by
clicking on the ‘Safely Remove Hardware’ icon in the Windows
taskbar then shutdown Windows cleanly.
Choice 2: If you don’t have Windows then you can use the ‘force’ option for
your own responsibility. For example type on the command line:
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media -o force
Or add the option to the relevant row in the /etc/fstab file:
/dev/sdb1 /media ntfs-3g force 0 0
Are you sure this device is not actually already mounted?
Look at the plugged devices in the kde panel
or browse to the /media folder
see if it’s there (this is the normal location of usb mounts)
Nothing is in /media. :\
Post the su terminal result of:
(copy and paste the code)
fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19452 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xe8000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 262 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2 * 263 2873 20972857+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 2874 19452 133170817+ 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdb: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x44fdfe06
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 38913 312568641 7 HPFS/NTFS
If i just say well done gerard; and thanks to caf for really good instructions; no hiccups at all !
Note the error about windows.
Do you have windows, have you unmounted/removed the device in windows and shutdown.
You could try the
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media -o force
given as an option, if you are confident.
But really you should be working. Double check eveything
Well, its only been connected to my computer and its Linux now. 
Well, forcing it, worked. Now its showing all the files and stuff on the external hard drive. Do I need to keep forcing it every time I need it though?
Well. I have never used the force option. It should be fine. Do you have important data on it?
I see there was also a mention of adding a line to fstab. Not usual that for usb devices.
I can’t understand how users have all these issues. Mine just works.
*Any other experts @swerdna ? Ideas?
I guess it wouldn’t hurt to try fstab
/dev/sdb1 /media ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
or as suggested
/dev/sdb1 /media ntfs-3g force 0 0