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Ceel

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Hi tiziano,

I thought the kernel should work in the same way in Live mode than in full installation but it seems it can be different. I'll have a look to this later. Anyway, it's always better to test a new ISO (particularly mines ;-) ) first in Live mode and then install it. For the moment we are going to work in Live mode and if we succeed we'll see how to modify your existing installation.

Boot again with my ISO and run, in a terminal, as root
```
   modprobe uhci_xcd
   dmesg | grep -i uhci
```
Look for error messages; post them if there are.
At this step you can also insert a stick in one of the USB 1 port, run
```
   fdisk -l
```
and see if it is detected (should be sda1)
Test your USB ports the one after the others.

Repeat these steps for your USB 2 controller:
```
   modprobe ehci_xcd
   dmesg | grep -i ehci
   fdisk -l
```
Posted 8 years ago #
tiziano

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@Ceel,

Let me explain what I did in order to be sure not having done anything wrong.

Booted your ISO then in a terminal:
su
Password
# modeprobe uhci_xcd

Reply:

modeprobe: module uhci_xcd not found in module.dep

Then, after second command string:
dmeg: not found

After this tested fdisk -l
No sda1 but just different hda

Obviously the USB ports are still not working

Posted 8 years ago #
Aleksej

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Hi tiziano

dmeg: not found

dmesg

Posted 8 years ago #
Ceel

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@tiziano,

My mistake; sorry for the typo. Read:
```
   modprobe uhci_hcd
```
and
```
   modprobe ehci_hcd
```
:-/
Posted 8 years ago #
tiziano

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Yes, dmesg command was wrong. Also digited again Ceel suggested revised commands

here the results:

first attempt - (test1)

then fdisk reported as shown (fdisk1) - no sda1 - hda from 1 to 8 only

second attempt - (test2)

second fdisk similar to first

apparently 4 different usb bus registered and assigned to 4 different bus numbers but, in the end, my usb stick is nowhere to be seen..

tested with different sticks as well - same result

just for additional info - this notebook has 3 usb slot only
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Posted 8 years ago #
Ceel

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@tiziano,

I didn't find what to do to have the USB working in SliTaz 4.0 :(
But this afternoon I noticed now USB ports were working with the last rolling ISO on my computer :) Can you test it?

@devs,

On my computer, USB works since ISO 20160807; does not work before.
In the tazpkg.log of my full installation, I can see there was an update of the kernel and modules between 2016/07/30 and 2016/08/03. I gave a look in the wok but I didn't see any modifications during this period for kernel & modules.
Would it be possible to have the same update in the 2.6.37 kernel or to tell me what I need to modify to have the USB working in SliTaz 4.0?
Thanks.

Posted 7 years ago #
tiziano

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Hi Ceel, nice getting news from you again since ages.

Downloaded last rolling ISO and tested it live in my old laptop. Unfortunately it didn't work either :(
Really don't understand why it behaves like that - as we already noticed it works with LXLE distro instead and not even its latest release!

I'm very pissed off not being able to use Slitaz with this old junk - checking latest rolling saw the attractive new design which is valuable to have - apart from the well-known fantastic performance of Slitaz

Lately gave up and used LXLE but honestly didn't like its response time comparing the one Slitaz returns...

Posted 7 years ago #
tiziano

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Some additional info - tested again on an old HP company nc4200 and the usb is being seen and read flawlessly with the rolling ISO live - this pic does not connect to wifi though - most probably it depends on some missing package

However the problem persists with the other laptop which, on the other hand do recognized my wifi network

Definitely disappointing ....

Posted 7 years ago #
tiziano

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@Ceel good news at last!

Lately was testing several versions live again and noticed with 4.0 had wifi box recognizing my card and connecting straight away and stably (never happened before) - no USB recognized/seen though -

Then was version 5.0 rc3 (may15) turn AND after a while the brown-striped button rolling.. the USB has been recognized and opened up, Eureka!

This version does not find my wifi network though....

The rolling version did not work either

Posted 7 years ago #
Ceel

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Very nice!!!!!!!!!!!

For my part, I am still struggling to try to have USB working with 4.0 :(

Concerning wifi, it should be possible to do it working if it can work with an other ISO. I'll have a look to the output of lspci -vvnn you've posted a few months ago and open a new topic for it if I can help you.

Posted 7 years ago #
tiziano

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Hey Ceel, it works with the rolling too! ;))

Noticed that when booting if I leave the stick inserted into the slot the process takes a while longer but apparently it try to identify the USB port itself - as matter of facts the stick starts blinking and it goes on until the process ends

By open desktop the stick is being detected and it takes a while as well until its seen and read but it definitely does - don't forget my laptop is very old

For your information, on the 4.0 version with stick in the slot the process stops - after waiting a while i did take stick out of the slot and process went on flawlessly - may it require longer time to detect it?... if you're struggling since months on this issue I don't think this might be the easy solution to the problem

Anyway thanks a lot for all your support and for the wifi matter if you can help any further :)

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