[afnog] UBUNTU 10.!10 headaches!

[Seun Ojedeji]

On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Yasini Kilima <ykilima at tra.go.tz> wrote:

>
> <<snip>>
> Oooops! My GOD I came to discover that my new OS cannot mount my USB stick
> although it can mount and read a USB Card reader with Memory Card of any
> type plugged in the same USB ports also it can see everything in my USB
> Mass Storage drive. I tried also my Digital camera with USB support it read
> pretty fine.
>
> The issue is only and just USB memory Stick. You can't believe
>
> Is the OS running on a virtualized environment OR standalone?

Fdisk -l will show the /dev/sdb1 with the capacity of my memory stick, Now
> I am about to run crazy again, I cannot afford to run my new OS without USB
> stick functionality. I have googled and tried a lot of everything said
> there in the forums but all in VAIN. Actually I have discovered that it is
> not only me but many have had this experience though some said they solved
> by disabling their floppy device on BIOS but to me and many more other has
> not solved the problem.
>
> I have now reached at the point that Either I go BACK to my 8.04 though I
> thought I could enjoy much on Ubuntu with 10.10 OR I get the Last help and
> my LAST RESORT is you Guys.
>
> Persnally if you cannot wait for 12.04 LTS which is around the corner, i
suggest you make use of 10.04LTS as it has long time security support, even
more that 10.10

> It reminds me of OUR Late Lecture for Computer Science in 2000 at the
> University of Dar es Salaam the LATE Dr. Mbise who was always preaching US
> that "IF YOU FIND YOU ARE USING A LOT OF ENERGY OR A LOT OF THINKING IN
> ANYTHING TECHNICAL THEN YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT EITHER YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG
> OR SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH THE SYSTEM" i.e. Life is supposed to be easier
> and not difficult in the computing world.
>
> Now please help me out of this predicament as I consider to go back to
> UBUNTU 8.04 just for the USB Memory functionality.
>
> Excuse me for the long STORY this is to make sure That my problem is well
> Understood.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Yasini.
>
>
> Regards

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