Bryan, Thanks for the response! This is helping. On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 00:11, Bryan Feir wrote: > <SNIP>I have an A7V8X myself, and have > plugged both types of devices in; in usbview, the one 2.0 device I had > installed (an external disc box) showed up under the 2.0 driver no > matter what port it was plugged into. >
I didn't know about usbview. I emerged it and it's showing what I thought might be happening. No USB... "Can not open the file /proc/bus/usb/devices Verify that you have USB compiled into your kernel, have the USB core modules loaded, and have the usbdevfs filesystem mounted." Indeed, under /proc/bus I have no usb directory... bash-2.05b$ cd /proc/bus/ bash-2.05b$ ls ieee1394 pccard pci bash-2.05b$ So I think this comes back to my original question. What USB options do I need to enable when I compile my kernel to get enough USB support to make this work? No /proc/bus/usb sounds pretty fundamental. Looking in make xconfig, and then help under USB Support, the 'Preliminary File System' option is set to 'No' and it seems to be the key to getting /proc/bus/usb/devices to exist. It says most users want to say yes. I'm currently saying no. Or am I missing something else? Maybe there's a package I need to install that works with the minimal amount of USB support I have compiled in? Some driver that gets installed and I need to modify /etc/modules.autoload or something? (Total guess which I doubt.) Or is this possibly *only* because I haven't mounted the usbdevfs filesystem in my fstab? Can you supply what you have in fstab (if anything) to make usbview work? Unfortunately, I have no USB devices other than two USB-based UPS's to use to debug this. > > One thing you may need... from your previous postings, you have a > _very_ minimal USB setup in the kernel. From the Network UPS Tools > site that someone else pointed out, it refers to a 'hidups' driver for > several APC UPSes. Yet your previous description of what parts of USB > you had installed in the kernel did _not_ include the USB_HID driver. > I suspect you'll need that, given the 'hid' in the driver name, as well > as the HIDINPUT and HIDDEV config parameters. I have the 'Human Interface Devices' (normally keyboards and mice I thought) turned off in my kernel. When I first built Gentoo I didn't intend to use USB for anything and shut that off, I think. I probably need to turn it on and rebuild the kernel I suppose. Thanks for your help. I'll be reading more on making USB work today. Cheers, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
