Thought I'd follow up on this and let everyone know what happened. The reason
the USB disappeared like that is because our system software has an app that
turns off the USB subsystem to save power. It only supplies power long enough
to get a reading from the GPS connected to the USB port :-P
BTW, to build a new flash drive with the Debian development image, the
documentation was too vague in the Arm Linux manual for the TS-7260.
You *cannot* have a flash image w/ the VFAT file system. There are filenames
in the tar file that include "::" which is not a valid DOS filename so it the
untar process will barf.
You have to do this using a real Linux machine (you can boot off a live CD of
Sidux, Knoppix, etc.)
fdisk /dev/sdb (assuming the flash drive is seen as that drive so you can
create a partition on the flash drive)
mkfs.ext2 /dev/sdb1 (you have to format the flash drive w/ the EXT2 filesystem)
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
do the tar -C /mnt -xvjf <debian image.bz>
What was really annoying is the linux 2.4 Debian Sarge image is missing the
rcS.USB script, so you have to unpack the Debian Woody image and get this file
from /etc/init.d to put it on the flash drive.
For the debian development environment, you have to modify
/etc/network/interfaces like a real Linux system instead of /etc/sysconfig/if*
Anyone else notice that if you apt-get anything in the Debian dev environment,
the first thing that gets thrown out is gcc-3.3? It installs gcc-4.3 which of
course is not on the TS-7260 board so now you have to install craploads of
shared libraries to get any executables to run :-P
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