the sony DSC-p52 is not reconized by the gentoo-sources kernel the URL provide a patch which is integrated in the 2.4.22 vanillia ( and work as expected ) ... i do not knew if others gentoo kernels have the problem ... Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. plug a usb DSC-p52 2. dmesg say : hub.c: new USB device 00:02.0-2, assigned address 3 usb.c: USB device 3 (vend/prod 0x54c/0x10) is not claimed by any active driver. Actual Results: can't mount it ( should be /dev/sdax ) Expected Results: could be mounted using ide-scsi and usb storage on /dev/sda emerge info Portage 2.0.49-r3 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.20-gentoo-r7)================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r7 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) processor ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs" GENTOO_MIRRORS=" ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo ftp://ftp.gentoo.skynet.be/pub/gentoo http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 oss apm avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif jpeg kde libg++ mad mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gdbm berkdb slang readline arts tetex aalib svga tcltk java sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis qt motif opengl mozilla cdr X gtk gnome -alsa dvd 3dnow"
the 2.4.20 branch of gentoo-sources is only getting bugfies from here on out. this is more of a feature request
I'll backport this.
Created attachment 18331 [details, diff] Patch
See if that patch works.
No reply, closing as TEST-REQUEST