I install debian sarge on my laptop, a dell inspiron 1100 and it
looked like everything was going fine until I plugged my ipod into
the usb port and nothing happened. It doesn't see my external
cdrom either. I assume the usb support is lacking. I've never
run across this with other distributions. How do I go about
resolving it?

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On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:30:20 GMT, Ed LaBonte wrote:
> I install debian sarge on my laptop, a dell inspiron 1100 and it
> looked like everything was going fine until I plugged my ipod into
> the usb port and nothing happened. It doesn't see my external
> cdrom either. I assume the usb support is lacking. I've never
> run across this with other distributions. How do I go about
> resolving it?

I'd start by running dmesg in a terminal side by side and seeing if the
USB devices show up or not.  I've had good luck with installing the
Debian Etch beta net installers of late and using a variety of USB
devices.  This is with a 2.6 kernel though.

I don't recall if you can get 2.6 on Debian Sarge or if you have to do a
custom install.  The CD net installers often offer a linux26 equivalent
which will do a 2.6 kernel install.  The Etch installer is very nice and
will do a 2.6 kernel by default.  I just built a laptop and desktop using
the same net installer.  I usually then take the systems to unstable
because its just what I do.  USB works very well for me even after they
give me kernel sources and tell me to do whatever I want :-)

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