Cannot see USB keys nor external USB HD

Could you try upgrading to Breezy Colony 5 and see whether that helps.

(In reply to comment #0)
> For your info, it worked on my other Hoary and also on Hoary upgraded to Breezy,
> but not on Breezy from scatch which is surprising !!

But obviously that was on a different computer, since you never installed Ubuntu
on this one before.

I'm willing as you recommend to try w/ Colony5, but I just found the English
version here
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/breezy/colony-5/
Do you know where I can find the French one in order not to destroy what I
already did

Thx

(In reply to comment #3)
> I'm willing as you recommend to try w/ Colony5, but I just found the English
> version here
> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/breezy/colony-5/
> Do you know where I can find the French one in order not to destroy what I
> already did

Maybe I'll have the French version choice inside, (I forgot about it from my
first install) I'll check anyway and come back 2U after
>
> Thx

(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > I'm willing as you recommend to try w/ Colony5
> > http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/breezy/colony-5/
>
>
I did it.
I downloaded the colony5 x386 install.iso
checked w/ md5sum
installed after partitioning and formatting
/ = 5 G
/home = 4 G
/swap = 0.4 G
and updated/ upgraded it as of today

1- w/o USB key inserted: I got, from the "black background menu", on the line
"starting hotplug subsystem":NO OK
2- I restarted w/ USB key inserted: no "black background menu", but a standard
editor saying :
- USB 3.1 device description read/64 error-71
- device not accepted address 4 error-71

Here we go!! any idea what happens to me after installing and reformating
carefully from scratch?

Thx for your help, I shouldn't be the only one facing that??!!

(In reply to comment #3)
> I'm willing as you recommend to try w/ Colony5, but I just found the English
> version here
> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/breezy/colony-5/
> Do you know where I can find the French one in order not to destroy what I
> already did

Forget this, I found out how to procced reinstall in French, sorry for that
silly question

> (In reply to comment #2)
> But obviously that was on a different computer, since you never installed Ubuntu
> on this one before.

First of all sorry for some "non effective/productive" messages on my part, I
did not know exactly how to answer. Now it's OK and I won't spoil your time!!

Where do I stand now.

1- You can read on comment #5 what is the situation regarding the first pc I
struggle with (let's call it pc1). You have to know, I installed colony 5 on it
(as a replacement of preview) KEEPING the existing /home

2- on pc2 (which already worked fine with Hoary) I reinstalled everything (/ and
/home) w/ colony 5 + today's upgrades and here we go:

When I insert USB key:
a) the LED flashes (good news)
b) I see "USB bar" in the "poste de travail" (I think it's called workstation in
English?), but not on the Desktop
c) when I click on it, I've got the following message:
"erreur l'UDI fourni n'est pas un volume montable" which I could translate as:
"error, the involved UDI is not a mountable volume", BUT it worked on the SAME
PC on HOARY ????

Does all that help you? I can make other tests if you wish, just let me know!!!
I'm pretty sure other people should face the same situation because I did
everything from scratch on pc2, reformatting the entire disk.

Thx again for your help, please keep me informed

(In reply to comment #1)
> Could you try upgrading to Breezy Colony 5 and see whether that helps.

Hello everyone
Back home for one week. I did even better than installing Colony 5. I installed,
from scratch, the brand new released version 5.10.

Absolutely NO DIFFERENCE:

my USB key is not seen at all????
for your info, and from the beginning, when I boot, at the line: "starting
hotplug subsystem" OK is NOT written, just skipped over.

Any idea? is it on your part or on my part???

Thx in advance for your help, have a nice day

This is an old story coming from Breezy and working fine now, should be replaced by my newest 28833 bug dealing w/ the same subject.

Thx

Anyway it has finally been working on Dapper but same problem again on Edgy!! How come we get the same Pbs on every new version ?