[clug] A "mount" defeat - was Re: Persuading Debian to talk to an Android tablet via USB?

[Felix Karpfen]

On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 18:08:02 +1100, Brett Worth wrote:

>> [felixk@ ~]$ mount /mnt/memstick/
>> mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was
>> specified.
>> 
>> The relevant entry in /etc/fstab currently reads:
>> 
>> "/dev/sda1       /mnt/memstick   auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0"
> 
> Maybe there's no partition table in which case this should read sda not
> sda1.  Also it's a bit weird that it's an sda device unless...  no its
> just weird.

The "/etc/fstab entry" was set up to read the content of USB memory-
sticks - which it does very well.   The setting may be totally 
inappropriate for reading <SD-Cards|Android tablets>.   
 
> You could try plugging it in then doing an dmesg to see if there's
> device names being reported.

I tried all the suggestions; and scored either a "failure to open" (with 
the fdisk command) or lots of output (with dmesg) that is well beyond my 
understanding. A fraction of the latter output is attached:

[777752.188018] usb 1-3: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and 
address 11
[777757.368018] usb 1-3: device descriptor read/64, error -62
[777762.652023] usb 1-3: device descriptor read/64, error -62
[777762.932030] usb 1-3: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and 
address 12
[777768.112022] usb 1-3: device descriptor read/64, error -62
[777773.396038] usb 1-3: device descriptor read/64, error -62
[777773.676037] usb 1-3: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and 
address 13
[777779.084018] usb 1-3: device not accepting address 13, error -62
[777779.260018] usb 1-3: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and 
address 14
[777784.668016] usb 1-3: device not accepting address 14, error -62
[777784.668042] hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 
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My thanks to all for giving such speedy attention to my problem.

Felix






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