does Saucy have USB related issues ?

[J]

On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 4:45 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 30 October 2013 00:31, Florian Diesch <diesch at spamfence.net> wrote:
>> Am Mon, 28 Oct 2013 21:03:01 +0000
>> schrieb Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com>:
>>
>>> Run dmesg before plugging it in, then plug it in and run dmseg again.
>>> Does anything get added.
>>
>> It's usually easier to run
>>
>>   tail -f /var/log/syslog
>>
>> and press the return key a few times to add some blank lines. Then plug
>> it in and see if there's any new output. All messages from dmesg are
>> shown here, too.

This is always useful for reading what dmesg and other things that
dump into syslog are saying as you do something.

If you want to REALLY get crazy, do it like this:

# tail -f /var/log/syslog &

which background the process, but will still dump something to console
whenever dmesg receives a message (or syslog for that matter).

Thus, you can now type commands and find out of anything is generated
in syslog as a result of your commands (like when restarting apache,
or dhcp).

To get out of it, type:

# fg

to bring the process back to the front and then ctrl-c to kill it.

Also, for your usb, have you tried using 'lsusb' after plugging it in
also to see if it appears at all on the USB bus? Granted, if it
doesn't cause USB messages to be generated initially in dmesg, it
probably won't appear in lsusb either, but it's worth checking.


Cheers,

Jeff