Re: [MandrakeMove] PingTec USB Key Problems

Well I tried booting without the key, and when it asks to skip or retry 
detection of the USB Key, I plug it in and hit retry.  This works everytime.  
So This key does work, just some little problem with the boot detection and 
use??  

It seems that something different could be done in the detection of a key at 
boot so it would perform the same detection as the GUI does when you tell it 
to retry detection of a USB Key.  What ever the difference is between the two 
different times, one works for me and one doesn't.

Hope this helps.

On Monday 22 December 2003 08:05 am, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
>
> I hate to say that, but it's not a big surprise: we've had so
> much trouble with keys when developing MandrakeMove...
>
> We've had some keys on which the VFAT filesystem would "panic" (a
> word reported by kernel) sometimes, moving it to read-only,
> breaking all subsequent operations of course.
>
> We've had many misdetections, slow detections (would not detect
> at boot but would detect after our "no key detected, plug in a
> key now" dialog).
>
> And we've had hungs like yours, the worst giving even a kernel
> panic in USB subsystem, the others just hanging the machine here,
> XFree not dead since we can VT-switch, but no command can
> complete anymore.
>
> My own explanation is that, one, some hardware are probably not
> 100% compatible with the specifications since so many cheap keys
> are sold nowadays; second, the linux kernel usb subsystem in late
> 2.4 is not known to be perfect, and there are probably some
> panics appearing in hardware-specific circumstances.
>
> Our best answer is to use keys that are known to work good, I've
> asked we set up a list of them but I don't think it's done yet.
> As far as we know, we've tested a "Seitec USB2.0 128MB" which did
> work ok, a "PQI USB2.0 128MB" also, and a "Iomega USB2.0 256MB".
> Many others exhausted problems.
>
> About your own key, it might make a difference whether the key is
> plugged in an USB1 or USB2 slot.

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Regards

Joseph Watson