[ale] USB is killing me

Christopher Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Sat Sep 13 23:03:29 EDT 2003


The 6-in-1 reader was an easy on to fix.  I had to recompile my
kernel to probe all LUN's on a SCSI id.  Now each slot for 
media represents a sd<N> device.


On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 09:10:11PM -0400, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> I'll try that now.  Next topic is 6-in-1 readers.   How do I
> get them to work?
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris
> 
> On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 09:01:14PM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> > Hi Chris,
> > 
> > I just went through the exact same thing.  In my case I had to compile
> > usb-ohci into the kernel, not as a module.  Secondly, I had to
> > uncheck/disable standard mouse/keyboard support under Character Devices.
> > 
> > hth,
> > 
> > -Jim P.
> > 
> > On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 20:39, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > > I've just upgraded my laptop kernel from RH 2.4.20-20.9 to
> > > 2.4.22.  Here is what I do to upgrade
> > > 
> > > 1) download 2.4.22.tar.bz2
> > > 2) un tar
> > > 3) cd linux-2.4.22
> > > 4) make menuconfig
> > > 5) cp ../linux-2.4.20-20.9/.config .
> > > 6) make menuconfig
> > > 7) make dep && \ 
> > >    make bzImage && make modules && \
> > >    make modules_install
> > > 
> > > 8) cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/kerne-2.4.22
> > > 9) update /boot/menu.1st
> > > 
> > > My USB mouse will work under the old kernel and 
> > > not the new.  I can not figure out what I've done wrong.
> > > All the same modules are present just the new version.
> > > you'll see from the lsmod output that they are not the same.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > lsmod from 2.4.20-20.9 
> > > Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
> > > hid                    22244   0  (unused)
> > > input                   5856   0  [keybdev mousedev hid]
> > > usb-uhci               26412   0  (unused)
> > > usbcore                79040   1  [hid usb-uhci]
> > > 
> > > lsmod from 2.4.22
> > > Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
> > > hid                    12440   0  (unused)
> > > keybdev                 2944   0  (unused)
> > > input                   5760   0  [mousedev keybdev]
> > > usb-uhci               26380   0  (unused)
> > > usbcore                78080   1  [hid usb-uhci]
> > > 
> > > What did I do wrong?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Chris
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