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--- "Don{ald} O. Woodall" wrote:
> In , on 05/23/2004
> at 02:38 PM, "Mark Abramowitz" said:
>
> >In , on 05/23/04
> > at 04:09 PM, xe22{at}optonline.net said:
>
> >>Have you tried any other USB device such as a mouse on the USB port
> to
> >>verify this is not a port/hardware problem?
>
> >Yes. I have a key drive - in fact used it this morning. I've also
> >reinstalled my base USB drivers, and the usb printer driver, and
> have
> >turned off USB 2.0 in the BIOS.
>
> Hi Guys
>
> FYI
>
> The name of this file is: which-usbmon
>
> FIRST MESSAGE
> -------------
> Path: news.consultron.ca!news!not-for-mail
> From: "Chuck McKinnis"
> Newsgroups: ecomstation.support.install
> Subject: Re: USB Printer
> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 22:28:55 GMT
> User-Agent: ProNews/2 V1.53.cp050
>
> On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 18:01:58 UTC, nospam{at}redshift.com wrote:
>
> > In , on 11/26/03
>
> > at 12:38 AM, "Chuck McKinnis"
said:
> >
> > >Two items. Did you install the USB port driver? Is the USB print
>
> > >monitor in your startup folder?
> >
> > Good questions, but yes on both counts. It is the port driver that
> reports
> > OFFLINE (DETACHED). Don't know how to get any useful info from the
> print
> > monitor however.
>
> In their infinite wisdom, IBM has put out two modules named
> USBMON.EXE.
> One is for the printer and one is for removable media. The printer
> one
> should have gotten installed in \OS2:
>
> 7-07-00 6:58p 20105 0 USBMON.EXE
>
> This one should be in the startup folder and executes with a parm of
> USBPRT.
>
> The removable media one should have gotten installed in \OS2\BOOT:
>
> 9-30-03 1:57p 51233 0 USBMON.EXE
>
> This one is also in the startup folder and does not have any parms.
This is how it is in my startup folder. I have removeable drives set up
(7 in one flash card reader/floppy drive) and no usb printer. The
removeable usbmon.exe shows active, and the printer usbmon won't stay
running. Does it stay active if it finds a usb printer?
Franklin
> Chuck McKinnis
> IBM Senior Systems Engineer (retired)
> http://pws.prserv.net/mckinnis/
>
> PROPOSED eCS SOLUTION
> ---------------------
>
> SECOND MESSAGE
> --------------
>
> Path: news.consultron.ca!news!not-for-mail
> From: "Chuck McKinnis"
> Newsgroups: ecomstation.support.hardware
> Subject: Re: USBMON for mass storage devices
> Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:37:09 GMT
> User-Agent: ProNews/2 V1.53.cp050
>
> On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 06:09:53 UTC, Keith Marjerison
> wrote:
>
> > Chuck McKinnis wrote:
> > > On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 00:43:46 UTC, Keith Marjerison
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > From the readme:
> > >
> > > 2.2.5 If the previous steps were competed without errors, change
> > > directory by typing "cd \os2\boot" at the OS/2 command
> prompt.
> > > Then type "usbicon" to install the removable device
> monitoring
> > > utility
> > > icon in the OS/2 startup folder. If you don't want to
> activate the
> > > removable device monitoring utility, you can skip this
> step.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >>Hello All;
> > >> When I 1st installed USB support there was a
"Removable Device
> Monitor
> > >>V1.1" object in the 'Startup' folder, and when a
removable device
> was
> > >>plugged in a popup would open and say the "x"
drive has been
> attached.
> > >>This no longer happens. I did not check its settings, and
> somewhere
> > >>along the way it disappearded from there.
> > >> Can someone tell me what their "Removable Device
Monitor" object
>
> > >>settings are?
> > >>Thanks in advance.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > Hi Chuck;
> > I tried that and it creates the object but there are no settings
> in the
> > Paramaters field on the 'Program' page in the 'Properties'
> notebook, and
> > it does not detect anything when a device is inserted.
>
> All mine has is:
>
> Program - C:\OS2\BOOT\USBMON.EXE
> Working directory - C:\OS2\BOOT
>
> Beware. The USB monitor for printers has the same name, USBMON.EXE,
> but
> it should be in \OS2. They really should be one monitor with
> different
> parms or two programs with different names or something, but I didn't
>
> write the code.
>
> --
> Chuck McKinnis
> Covenant Solutions
> http://pws.prserv.net/mckinnis/
>
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