SB 24 Live USB External Doesn't always st

I Have a Dell GX260 and my SB 24 Li've plugged in to a
front-panel USB port. I am running Windows 2000, SP4.
Usually, when I turn on the system, the blue power-on
lamp on the SB 24 lights up and everything is fine.
The lamp seems to light up about the time the disc's are
being checked OK.
However, about in 3 reboots, the blue lamp stays off
and the OS doesn't see the SB.
This is annoying but easy to fix: I just unplug the
SB USB cable and plug it back in; the blue lamp
come on and everything is normal.
I'd like the SB to come on EVERY TIME, but I
can't figure out how to do this. I suspect some
service option or secret registry switch might be
involved. Does anyone know how to fix this?
Is it possible this might be an intermittent
SB hardware problem?

The Li've! 24-bit does not have the common DSP known as EMU0Kx. It is not sure yet what the chip on it really offers, but I believe it is more of a hardwired version. Actually from the names used in the drivers, it appears that the chip is actually a part of the whole EMU0K2 chip, the P7 part which is responsible for the 24-bit processing. And from what I have heard, EAX support it emulated on the host.

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dmesg when the mouse isn't working :
$ dmesg
Linux version 2.6.19-ARCH (root@Laptop) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061215 (prerelease)
) #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Jan 11 20:08:17 CET 2007
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000ec000 - 00000000000f0000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000f800000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fffc0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
248MB LOWMEM available.
Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 63488) 0 entries of 256 used
Zone PFN ranges:
DMA 0 -> 4096
Normal 4096 -> 63488
HighMem 63488 -> 63488
early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
0: 0 -> 63488
On node 0 totalpages: 63488
DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0
Normal zone: 464 pages used for memmap
Normal zone: 58928 pages, LIFO batch:15
HighMem zone: 0 pages used for memmap
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 COMPAQ ) @ 0x000ec010
ACPI: RSDT (v001 COMPAQ HAWA7K31 0x00010503 0x00000000) @ 0x000ec080
ACPI: FADT (v001 COMPAQ HAWA7K31 0x00010503 0x00000000) @ 0x000ec0cc
ACPI: SSDT (v001 COMPAQ HAWA7K3 0x00000001 MSFT 0x0100000c) @ 0x000ec223
ACPI: DSDT (v001 COMPAQ DSDTTBL 0x00000001 MSFT 0x0100000c) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0xee08
Allocating PCI resources starting at 10000000 (gap: 0f800000:f07c0000)
Detected 901.637 MHz processor.
Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 62992
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda3 ro earlymodules=piix
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- you can enable it with "lapic"
mapped APIC to ffffd000 (011fa000)
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 10, 4096 bytes)
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Memory: 246968k/253952k available (2330k kernel code, 6392k reserved, 735k data,
260k init, 0k highmem)
virtual kernel memory layout:
fixmap : 0xfff83000 - 0xfffff000 ( 496 kB)
pkmap : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000 (4096 kB)
vmalloc : 0xd0000000 - 0xff7fe000 ( 759 MB)
lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xcf800000 ( 248 MB)
.init : 0xc0405000 - 0xc0446000 ( 260 kB)
.data : 0xc0346806 - 0xc03fe64c ( 735 kB)
.text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc0346806 (2330 kB)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 1805.52 BogoMIPS (lpj=3611040)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0183f9ff c1c7f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: After all inits, caps: 0183f9ff c1c7f9ff 00000000 00000420 00000000 0000000
0 00000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
Freeing SMP alternatives: 12k freed
checking if image is initramfs... it is
Freeing initrd memory: 501k freed
ACPI: Core revision 20060707
ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initramfs... error, file /DSDT.aml not found.
ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 0c28)
CPU0: AMD Duron(tm) Processor stepping 01
SMP motherboard not detected.
Local APIC not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation.
Brought up 1 CPUs
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfa154, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
Setting up standard PCI resources
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs *3 4 5 6 7 10 11 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 15)
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
ACPI: Assume root bridge [_SB_.PCI0] bus is 0
PCI quirk: region ee00-eeff claimed by vt82c586 ACPI
PCI quirk: region ec00-ec0f claimed by vt82c686 SMB
Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 12 devices
SCSI subsystem initialized
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
NetLabel: Initializing
NetLabel: domain hash size = 128
NetLabel: protocols = UNLABELED CIPSOv4
NetLabel: unlabeled traffic allowed by default
pnp: 00:0b: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved
pnp: 00:0b: ioport range 0xee00-0xee7f could not be reserved
pnp: 00:0b: ioport range 0xee80-0xeeff has been reserved
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
IO window: disabled.
MEM window: 80000000-800fffff
PREFETCH window: 88000000-8fffffff
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 98304 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 49152 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 4096)
TCP reno registered
apm: BIOS not found.
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 [email protected]).
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
PCI: Disabling Via external APIC routing
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PBTN]
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
00:03: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:03.0 (0000 -> 0001)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 3
PCI: setting IRQ 3 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:03.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 3 (level, low) -> IRQ
3
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:KBD,PNP0f0e:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
TCP cubic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
Freeing unused kernel memory: 260k freed
Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:14.1
VP_IDE: chipset revision 16
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686a (rev 22) IDE UDMA66 controller on pci0000:00:14.1
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1880-0x1887, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1888-0x188f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:DMA
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLlct20 40, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdd: Compaq CRD-8322B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 78177792 sectors (40027 MB) w/418KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63
hda: cache flushes not supported
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
hdd: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, DMA
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
usbcore: registered new device driver usb
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11
PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.2[D] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ
11
uhci_hcd 0000:00:14.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:14.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:14.2: irq 11, io base 0x00001840
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.3[D] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ
11
uhci_hcd 0000:00:14.3: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:14.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:14.3: irq 11, io base 0x00001860
usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
agpgart: Detected VIA Twister-K/KT133x/KM133 chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0x90000000
usb 1-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
parport_pc: VIA 686A/8231 detected
parport_pc: probing current configuration
parport_pc: Current parallel port base: 0x378
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, using FIFO [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,EC
P]
parport_pc: VIA parallel port: io=0x378, irq=7
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 10
PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.5[C] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ
10
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:14.5 to 64
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input1
via686a 0000:00:14.4: base address not set - upgrade BIOS or use force_addr=0xad
dr
vt596_smbus 0000:00:14.4: SMBUS: Error: Host SMBus controller not enabled! - upg
rade BIOS or use force=1
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PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:05.0 (0004 -> 0007)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 5
PCI: setting IRQ 5 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:05.0[A] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ
5
eth0: VIA Rhine II at 0x11000, 00:05:5d:e9:5a:17, IRQ 5.
eth0: MII PHY found at address 8, status 0x782d advertising 01e1 Link 0021.
usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
usbhid: probe of 1-1:1.0 failed with error -71
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 3
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
EXT3 FS on hda3, internal journal
Adding 262576k swap on /dev/hda2. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:262576k
scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access JetFlash TS256MJF110 0.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
usb-storage: device scan complete
eth0: link up, 10Mbps, half-duplex, lpa 0x0021
SCSI device sda: 512000 512-byte hdwr sectors (262 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sda: 512000 512-byte hdwr sectors (262 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
sda: sda1
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
NET: Registered protocol family 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
Mobile IPv6
[drm] Initialized drm 1.0.1 20051102
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 3 (level, low) -> IRQ
3
[drm] Initialized savage 2.4.1 20050313 on minor 0
mtrr: base(0x8a000000) is not aligned on a size(0x5000000) boundary
agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 1x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 1x mode
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
mtrr: base(0x8a000000) is not aligned on a size(0x5000000) boundary
mtrr: base(0x8a000000) is not aligned on a size(0x5000000) boundary
mtrr: base(0x8a000000) is not aligned on a size(0x5000000) boundary
agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 1x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 1x mode
And here's the output of dmesg when the mouse works :
$ dmesg
Linux version 2.6.19-ARCH (root@Laptop) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061215 (prerelease
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000ec000 - 00000000000f0000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000f800000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fffc0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
248MB LOWMEM available.
Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 63488) 0 entries of 256 used
Zone PFN ranges:
DMA 0 -> 4096
Normal 4096 -> 63488
HighMem 63488 -> 63488
early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
0: 0 -> 63488
On node 0 totalpages: 63488
DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0
Normal zone: 464 pages used for memmap
Normal zone: 58928 pages, LIFO batch:15
HighMem zone: 0 pages used for memmap
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 COMPAQ ) @ 0x000ec010
ACPI: RSDT (v001 COMPAQ HAWA7K31 0x00010503 0x00000000) @ 0x000ec080
ACPI: FADT (v001 COMPAQ HAWA7K31 0x00010503 0x00000000) @ 0x000ec0cc
ACPI: SSDT (v001 COMPAQ HAWA7K3 0x00000001 MSFT 0x0100000c) @ 0x000ec223
ACPI: DSDT (v001 COMPAQ DSDTTBL 0x00000001 MSFT 0x0100000c) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0xee08
Allocating PCI resources starting at 10000000 (gap: 0f800000:f07c0000)
Detected 901.637 MHz processor.
Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 62992
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda3 ro earlymodules=piix
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- you can enable it with "lapic"
mapped APIC to ffffd000 (011fa000)
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 10, 4096 bytes)
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Memory: 246968k/253952k available (2330k kernel code, 6392k reserved, 735k data
virtual kernel memory layout:
fixmap : 0xfff83000 - 0xfffff000 ( 496 kB)
pkmap : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000 (4096 kB)
vmalloc : 0xd0000000 - 0xff7fe000 ( 759 MB)
lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xcf800000 ( 248 MB)
.init : 0xc0405000 - 0xc0446000 ( 260 kB)
.data : 0xc0346806 - 0xc03fe64c ( 735 kB)
.text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc0346806 (2330 kB)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 1805.52 BogoMIPS (lpj=3611040)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0183f9ff c1c7f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: After all inits, caps: 0183f9ff c1c7f9ff 00000000 00000420 00000000 000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
Freeing SMP alternatives: 12k freed
checking if image is initramfs... it is
Freeing initrd memory: 501k freed
ACPI: Core revision 20060707
ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initramfs... error, file /DSDT.aml not found.
ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 0c28)
CPU0: AMD Duron(tm) Processor stepping 01
SMP motherboard not detected.
Local APIC not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation.
Brought up 1 CPUs
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfa154, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
Setting up standard PCI resources
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs *3 4 5 6 7 10 11 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 15)
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
ACPI: Assume root bridge [_SB_.PCI0] bus is 0
PCI quirk: region ee00-eeff claimed by vt82c586 ACPI
PCI quirk: region ec00-ec0f claimed by vt82c686 SMB
Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 12 devices
SCSI subsystem initialized
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
NetLabel: Initializing
NetLabel: domain hash size = 128
NetLabel: protocols = UNLABELED CIPSOv4
NetLabel: unlabeled traffic allowed by default
pnp: 00:0b: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved
pnp: 00:0b: ioport range 0xee00-0xee7f could not be reserved
pnp: 00:0b: ioport range 0xee80-0xeeff has been reserved
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
IO window: disabled.
MEM window: 80000000-800fffff
PREFETCH window: 88000000-8fffffff
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 98304 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 49152 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 4096)
TCP reno registered
apm: BIOS not found.
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 [email protected]).
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
PCI: Disabling Via external APIC routing
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PBTN]
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
00:03: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:03.0 (0000 -> 0001)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 3
PCI: setting IRQ 3 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:03.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 3 (level, low) -> IRQ
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:KBD,PNP0f0e:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
TCP cubic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
Freeing unused kernel memory: 260k freed
Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:14.1
VP_IDE: chipset revision 16
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686a (rev 22) IDE UDMA66 controller on pci0000:00:14.1
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1880-0x1887, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1888-0x188f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:DMA
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLlct20 40, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdd: Compaq CRD-8322B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 78177792 sectors (40027 MB) w/418KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63
hda: cache flushes not supported
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
hdd: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, DMA
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
usbcore: registered new device driver usb
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11
PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.2[D] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IR
uhci_hcd 0000:00:14.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:14.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:14.2: irq 11, io base 0x00001840
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.3[D] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IR
uhci_hcd 0000:00:14.3: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:14.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:14.3: irq 11, io base 0x00001860
usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
agpgart: Detected VIA Twister-K/KT133x/KM133 chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0x90000000
usb 1-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
parport_pc: VIA 686A/8231 detected
parport_pc: probing current configuration
parport_pc: Current parallel port base: 0x378
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, using FIFO [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,E
parport_pc: VIA parallel port: io=0x378, irq=7
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 10
PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.5[C] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IR
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:14.5 to 64
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input1
via686a 0000:00:14.4: base address not set - upgrade BIOS or use force_addr=0xa
vt596_smbus 0000:00:14.4: SMBUS: Error: Host SMBus controller not enabled! - up
via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.4.2 Sept-11-2006 Written by Donald Becker
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:05.0 (0004 -> 0007)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 5
PCI: setting IRQ 5 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:05.0[A] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ
eth0: VIA Rhine II at 0x11000, 00:05:5d:e9:5a:17, IRQ 5.
eth0: MII PHY found at address 8, status 0x782d advertising 01e1 Link 0021.
usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
usbhid: probe of 1-1:1.0 failed with error -71
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 3
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
EXT3 FS on hda3, internal journal
Adding 262576k swap on /dev/hda2. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:262576k
scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access JetFlash TS256MJF110 0.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
usb-storage: device scan complete
eth0: link up, 10Mbps, half-duplex, lpa 0x0021
SCSI device sda: 512000 512-byte hdwr sectors (262 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sda: 512000 512-byte hdwr sectors (262 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
sda: sda1
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
NET: Registered protocol family 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
Mobile IPv6
[drm] Initialized drm 1.0.1 20051102
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 3 (level, low) -> IRQ
[drm] Initialized savage 2.4.1 20050313 on minor 0
mtrr: base(0x8a000000) is not aligned on a size(0x5000000) boundary
agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 1x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 1x mode
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
mtrr: base(0x8a000000) is not aligned on a size(0x5000000) boundary
mtrr: base(0x8a000000) is not aligned on a size(0x5000000) boundary
mtrr: base(0x8a000000) is not aligned on a size(0x5000000) boundary
agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 1x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 1x mode
usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 2
usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 3
usb 1-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
input: HID 062a:0000 as /class/input/input2
input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [HID 062a:0000] on usb-0000:00:14.2-1

[SOLVED] External USB mouse doesn't work

I've installed Arch on my laptop and today faced with a problem. When I boot with AC off my external USB mouse doesn't work. Also it looks like USB ports don't work. If I detached AC when working mouse works fine.
I can suppose there is some problem with laptop mode. May be it turns off usb ports to save energy. Anyway quick search doesn't brings any results. If someone give me a hint how to solve this problem I'll be very grateful.
Last edited by avli (2011-07-14 16:53:15)

Well, after diving into configs solution has been founded. The point was to disable auto suspend feature in laptop-mode-tools config by setting BATT_SUSPEND_USB variable to 0 in /etc/laptop-mode/conf.d/usb-autosuspend.conf
Hope this information will be helpful for users who probably faced with the same problem. Thank you!

My new 24in imac doesn't recognize my usb external hard drive- snow leopard

i was attempting to do a new time machine back up on my new mac but it won't recognize the usb external hard drive (kaser 250gb). i used it frequently on my old g5 imac, no problems. i plugged the hard drive into my g4 ibook and it recognized it right away. i followed the apple tip of pulling the power plug out of the wall power socket and pulled all the usb cables out as well (i have the wireless keyboard). i let it rest for over 5 minutes and only plugged in my wacom stylus and usb external hard drive. still nothing. and it doesn't show either in disk utility. i also downloaded as per another thread the 3g ntfs system preference but to no avail. the only thing i can of doing is erase and reformat my external on my ibook, but i don't want to risk loosing the data without a back up.
anything else i can try? (before i buy time capsule) thanks

i just checked again by plugging the external into my ibook g4 and checked how it was formatted - mac os extended (journaled).
Then the 3GFS software is not required at all.
i have an idea, not sure if it will work and it will have to wait a couple days until i get my firewire back from a friend, but this is what i'm thinking: my intel imac has a 1tb hard drive. could i use target mode between my imac and ibook? with my ibook i'd attach the external hard drive, then using the firewire and target mode start it up. hoping that the ibook hard drive and the attached external hard drive would show on my intel mac for which i could copy over the external back ups onto my imac. once completed, i could erase and reformat the external on my ibook and then try again on my imac to see if it appears on my desktop. do you think this might work (even though it is correctly formatted already?)
I use Target mode on a regular basis for mounting the internal drive on a Mac to transfer or salvage data. I don't know if you will be able to connect to an external drive on the Target computer. There's not usually any reason for this and I don't know if the Target Mode will enable the Logic board to deal with the USB ports and transfer data. I kinda doubt it, but other more experienced users can jump in here.
I don't think the problem with your external drive is the format, since you've already checked it and it is already formatted for a Mac. Intel Mac's will mount drives formatted by a PPC Mac with no problems, unless your OS doesn't support the chipset in the USB case that connects to the drive. There are some USB drives that are known to not work well with SL but worked fine with Leopard.
You can buy a cheap USB case (about $30) and move the drive from the old case to the new case, or buy a USB to IDE adaptor cable (about $20), or you can buy a larger external drive that will work on the iMac and use the G4 to transfer the date from the old drive to a new one. Or you can take both drives to a friend with a Mac and use Disk Utility to restore the USB drive to a partition on the Firewire drive. That doesn't fix the USB drive to work with your new Mac, but unless the vendor comes out with a firmware fix, I think that's a lost cause anyway.
other than the above, i may just go buy a 1tb time capsule,
I would not be getting a Time Capsule to back up a single computer. Wireless backups are a lot slower than FireWire or USB (of course, it's the initial backup that takes so much time). If you do have several Mac's that need a TM backup volume, then the Capsule can help you out. It is supported by Apple (and there are a lot of users here in the forums). I'm using a ReadyNAS device for network backups, but it is not supported by Apple, and I have to rely on NetGear for fixes if an OS update breaks my backup system.
BTW, it's a good chance that a TC device will be able to see and mount your USB drive. The incompatible chipset problem with some drives seems to be limited to the USB drivers in SL which the TC is not running. That's why I said that a USB hub may also let you see your drive, the problem is there's no guarantee's...

MP3+ USB External Card doesn't work when plugged into USB

My MP3+ USB external sound card doenst' work whenever I plug it into my usb hub.
Model: sb0270
First I tried a powered D-link 7 port usb 2.0 hub. (model DUB-H7, H/W ver: 2) although the model number doens't tell you much is has the same model number as a USB/Firewire hub with 3/4 ports.
The sound card is recognized as a "composite" device. But no sound goes "through" it (light doesn't flash).
I'm now using a Belkin 7 port usb 2.0 hub, model f5u237 rev. 3.
When I plug the soundcard into my computer it stops the laptop speakers, and then my sound system starts playing. When I unplug it my sound system stops, and then my laptopspears start playing. When I plug it into the USB hub the sound on my laptop speakers stops, windows finds a USB composite device, then the sound starts playing on my laptop speakers again.
I've tried this on 2 computers a HP ZV600 and a HP dv5040us.
dv5040us specs: http://h0025.www.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/genericDocument?cc=us&docname=c00584686&lc=en&jump id=reg_R002_USEN
This is the only USB device I have that is not functioning correctly. (2 HDDs, keyboard, mouse, printer, mp3 player, controller, and joystick)
Even if those arn't plugged it it still doens't work.

I tried with another USB flash card and with a smaller file.
The transferring from Mac to the card starts but is extremely slow ( around 0,5MB/sec)

HT1338 my mac pro doesn't see my usb external hard drive what can i do?

I'm having a problem with my mac pro not see my usb external hard drive. Can someone tell me something I can do to get the mac tosee the external drive?
Thank you in advance.
George

Open Disk Utility (Applications > Utilities) and check the sidebar. If it's in it, select it and format it unless you have files

SB Live 5.1 usb external no surround in Battlefield 2 h

Hello!
I have SB Li've 5. usb external and when i check to play the game Battlefield 2 with hardware sound enabled (to use surround effects) then the voice is stuttering and some sounds are left out. Do anyone know a solution. Offically or inoffically i don?t care. But plz do anyone know a solution. I only wants surround but in software mode i do not get it.
Sincerely: Andr?

Once you get it working (making sound, without crashing the system), go into Device Manager and UNINSTALL the Microsoft drivers. Then insert the Creative Installation Disk (it should autorun) and install the SoundBlaster Drivers and whichever Applications you choose. SIMILARLY, rather than choose 'uninstall driver' in Device Manager, you can select 'update driver' and point Windows toward the Creative disk. It should work either way, however one method may be a bit easier than the other for some people.
As a 'general' rule, anytime Windows begins to install something for you, you may want to click CANCEL and make it stop. Especially if you have a proprietary disk at hand with drivers and apps for that particular hardware.
PS-Don't forget to set your speakers to 5. in Control Panel.
Message Edited by Jo6Pak on 02-0-2006 05:38 PM

Can I use the iPad charger as a live USB hub?

If i was to use my iPad charger (after removing the cable), as a live USB hub for my external speakers, would that cause damage to the charger? Would this set up work? I've blown up a mac charger before with these experiments, don't wanna do another.

The problems with the Apple Maps app were overblown. Yes, there were some isolated accuracy and direction issues when it was released, but Apple has made a lot of improvement since then. I use it on my iPhone all the time and have yet had problems. It doesn't always choose the same route I would have chosen, but that's with all navigation apps.

How do i repair or recover data from a corrupt USB external hard drive that does not show up on my Mac desktop or disk utility

How do i repair or recover data from a corrupt USB external hard drive that does not show up on my Mac desktop or disk utility?
Last night i was using my external hard drive, for some reason the folder just closed and i couldn't find it on my desktop.
After googling solutions, i found it in the disk utilities, i clicked on the 'repair' button many times, but it said the 'error...' message.
So i ejected it to try again, now when i connect the USB external hard drive it doesn't show up on my desktop or disk utilities.
I really just want to either repair or recover the data on it because it literally has everything (documents, work files, photos etc) on it,
I downloaded an application to recover my files but it needs the USB to at least show up.recognise it which mine doesn't.
I know i should've backed it up on another USB, this definitely teaches me for next time to back up all my files.
Are the files lost forever or can i recover them by going to a shop or using a software?

Thank you for responding.
This might sound stupid since i'm not really knowledgeable with Macs,
but since all my files were moved from my mac computer to the external hard drive,
is it possible to recover those files through my Mac - like recovering deleted files?

USB external Super Drive not recognized by iMac

Bought a new USB external Super Drive a few days ago (from Apple shop).
Plugged into my iMac 21.5", late 2013, and the iMac does not seem to want to recognise it.
Checked Finder and necessary boxes ticked up to show on Desktop, also does not show through remote devices.
Any help would be appreciated. Not a techie and 90 miles from my Apple shop.Not even sure I have filled the dam request in correctly (sorry).
Oddjob70
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Oddjob, the optical drive itself never shows up on the desktop,. What happens when you insert a disc? If a disc doesn't show up first check your connection. Try resetting the SMC Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC) - Apple Support and PRAM How to Reset NVRAM on your Mac - Apple Support
There's also the possibility that the drive is bad.

ITunes 9.0 pausing when skipping a song off of a USB external drive

This is not random and is very much related to iTunes 9.0, because it didn't exist with 8.0. Or well, I could normally skip through 3-4 songs off the external HDD before a similar short pause, and I just always figured it was a normal buffer issue of the USB bus and its drivers. Besides, it was shorter than what I'm putting up with right now.
It could also have something to do with the following things:
(1) the Iomega Prestige Portable drive (2)is attached to two ports of the hub in my HP LP2475W display, and (3)the hub also has the logitech cordless desktop for mac receiver hooked to it, and the hub itself is attached to the other one of the MacBook's two USB ports. The other one has my old LaCie Porsche now used for Time Machine backups. However, that should be irrelevant in this equation, while the only key factor would be iTunes 9.0 itself, as I've had it setup like this, and sometimes hooked up things like a USB scanner, point&shoot digicam, even my Razr on the monitor's usb hub while playing iTunes all summer long with no problems.
Well, it could be also have something to do with Leopard and iTunes, and Snow Leopard upgrade might resolve this. I'm still waiting for Apple Up-To-Date to resolve it, as I bought my computer from an authorized retailer, so I had to go through the print and mail hoop and loop crapola for some reason.
Secondly, I'm estimating there are plenty of Mac users, especially those with a laptop, who keep their music collection on an external drive, which in many cases probably happens to be a USB one. So, this probably affects a whole lot of users.
Thirdly, if the Windows 7 version is affected with the same behaviour plus one degree down south, meaning it is happening with the internal HDD as well*, this was something they forgot to test and after a few user complaints, they should release a patch. *As reported by a friend of mine using Windows 7 on a minilaptop.
I cannot stress enough how freaking annoying that pause/lag all of a sudden is. Especially when you are doing something or actually working while you're listening and you press that skip button on your keyboard when the next song starts and you don't feel like listening that one but want the next one that the shuffle is playing. So, normally this move integrates seamlessly with my workflow, or just flow when I'm not actually working, and my eyes are reading the screen, left hand rests on the keyboard (iTunes-specific) skip button, while my right hand operates the mouse and ears do the sound registering bit so I know what song is on the iTunes plate, until I get to the next song I like. Now all of a sudden there's this annoying and irritating pause between every skip messing the s**t up of your flow. That's BS. And if you're browsing through the playlist looking for a certain song and then you double-click that it's the same thing as already described.
Message was edited by: MikkoV

MikkoV,
The same exact thing is happening to me (but I have Snow Leopard). My music is on a USB external hard drive (1TB MyBook) and with almost every song I try to skip, it hangs for upwards of 5 seconds. This is especially annoying because I shuffle my music quite often and I tend to skip over many songs before I find one I want to listen to; and, it happens both when the music is paused and playing.
This hanging has never happened to this extent before upgrading to iTunes 9.0. If there is not a fix to this how can I go about downgrading to iTunes 8.0?

Installation of Windows 7 via USB External HDD (Boot Camp Assistant)

How do I mount Windows 7 Ultimate disk image (.iso) onto my USB external HDD so that I can boot using that USB external HDD? I have tried reEFIt, but it doesn't work for me. It may be because I did something wrong. I would appreciate a comprehensive guide. Thanks.

i suspect you haven't prepared the USB drive as a boot volume.
You can absolutely do this. It is detailed on CNET in the following article: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-31012_7-20020513-10355804.html

How to setup a live USB stick using the latest archlinux 201405

Hello, long time reader, first time poster. I recently purchased a new computer, and I would like to setup arch linux as host OS, so I can see if I could build a LFS system from the Arch Linux live USB drive. When I run the following command "dd if=/arch.iso of=/dev/myDisk" it successfully creates a USB drive that is bootable on the new computer (it's using EFI) and the system boots into a shell prompt. However, when running the above command, my host OS (OS X) on my other computer doesn't recognize the drive, so I can add files or do anything with the remaining 15.5GB of storage on the drive.
I came across this document, => https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/US … tion_Media which I must say is very well documented (kudos). So I mounted the Arch_Linux_2014.05 ISO and copied the files to freshly formatted (FAT 32) USB drive, and inserted into the new computer, and it see's the EFI boot option, when I hold down the "option" key when the computer boots up (that's good). However, it doesn't bootstrap the Linux kernel or the Arch Linux base system for that matter.
I came across this forum post, => https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=135046 where a member was discussing editing some files to get his USB drive to boot. I wasn't sure if this forum thread was still relative as it a couple years old.
Finally, the reason I prefer the mounting of the ISO, and copying the files is so that 1) my host OS on my old computer (OS X) can read the USB drive. 2) I can add files to the USB drive without having it locked down.
Thanks for reading, and any help would be greatly appreciated.

After fooling around with the grub.cfg I finally got it to boot.
The menu entries I added to the grub.cfg look like the following,
menuentry "[loopback]arch_201405.iso" {
set isofile="arch.iso"
loopback loop (hd0,1)/$isofile
linux (loop)/arch/boot/x86_64/vmlinuz archisolabel=ARCH_201405 img_dev=/dev/sda1 img_loop=$isofile earlymodules=loop
initrd (loop)/arch/boot/x86_64/archiso.img
menuentry "[loopback]arch_2014.04.01-dual.iso" {
set isofile="archlinux-2014.04.01-dual.iso"
loopback loop (hd0,1)/$isofile
linux (loop)/arch/boot/x86_64/vmlinuz archisolabel=ARCH_201404 img_dev=/dev/sdc1 img_loop=$isofile earlymodules=loop
initrd (loop)/arch/boot/x86_64/archiso.img
I added the archlinux-2014.04.01-dual.iso file to the USB flash drive because apparently there is a bug with the 201405 version of archlinux using fat32 and booting into a live environment, https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/40217

Need help with homemade usb external hard drive

I got a usb external hard drive kit that you can put any hard drive into, and I have a 20gig western digital disk. I cant seem to get it to work on my gateway(333 mhz celeron) with windows 2000, but I am going to order a imac in 6 days. Do you think that the external hard drive would work on a newer computer like an imac? Also What jumper settings would I have to put it on? The current choices are "slave", "single or master", and "master with slave present". There are also 3 jumper settings that could be possible, but it is not labeled on the hard drive.
thanks!

Rob, check the instructions that should have come with your drive kit, or check the manufacturer's website. Normally an IDE drive would be jumpered as 'master' or 'cable select' if it's used in a drive kit. BTW, that setting remains totally inside the drive housing, it is not visible or meaningful to the computer via the USB connection.
Whether or not your kit will work with a new iMac is hard to tell, esp. since you haven't been able to get it working so far. Have you checked to make sure whether or not you need to install a USB driver for your drive kit on your Gateway machine? (Win98 always requires USB drivers, WinXP rarely does, and I'm not sure about Win2K). For what it's worth, MACs rarely require special USB drivers.

Fax modem won't work - Apple USB external modem

I am new to Mac, well relatively.... It's been 8 years, and now I am back!!
Anyway, I got an iMac 3 weeks ago, and love it. However, I can't get my external modem/fax modem working. I bought the Apple USB external modem, hooked it up, setup a fax printer, and NOTHING. I try to print to the fax and it won't even dial. I call the fax number, and it won't answer. I know it's a live phone line b/c I can hook it up to my fax machine and it works fine, both for incoming and outgoing messages. Is there a trick? Do I have to set up an actual external modem interface in the networks panel just to use an existing phone line? Thanks for your help....

You actually need to configure your iMac as a fax machine to send and receive faxes through the Apple USB modem.
From Faxing in Mac Help in the Finder Help menu;
*To set up your Mac to receive faxes*:
1. Choose Apple menu > System Preferences and click Print & Fax.
2. Select the fax modem in the Printers list.
3. Type your fax number in the Fax Number field. This is used to identify your computer when you send or receive a fax.
4. If you want to control your computer’s fax functions from the menu bar, select “Show fax status in menu bar.” If you don’t want to receive faxes automatically, you must select this option. If you receive faxes automatically, you may want to select this option so you can view status information more easily.
5. Click Receive Options.
6. Select “Receive faxes on this computer,” and choose the number of rings before your computer answers a fax.
a. If you want to receive faxes automatically, make sure your computer answers the phone before any other device that may be connected to it, such as a phone answering machine.
b. If you don’t want to receive faxes automatically, set the number of rings to the highest number possible, and use the Fax status menu to receive faxes manually.
7. Choose what to do with the fax after it arrives; you can save it as an image file, email it, and print it to a printer.
*To send a fax:*
1. Choose File > Print, and then choose Fax PDF from the PDF pop-up menu.
2. Type the fax number in the To field, or click the Address Book button to the right of the To field to select a number. If you want to paste a number into the To field and the Edit > Paste command isn’t available, hold down the Control key as you click the To field and choose Paste from the menu that appears.
3. If your phone system requires you to dial a prefix for an outside line, type it in the Dialing Prefix field.
4. If you want to include a cover page, select “Use Cover page” and enter a subject and message.
5. Make sure the correct fax device is selected from the Printer pop-up menu.
6. To change your options, choose the option category from the print options pop-up menu. For example, to choose your modem’s behavior when faxing, choose Fax Modem. You can choose whether to dial with touch tones or pulse tones, whether to listen to the modem as it dials, and whether to wait for a steady dial tone before dialing.
7. Click Fax.

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