On Thursday 04 September 2003 15:15, Mark Knecht wrote:
> 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.

Make sure you also have hotplug enabled in your kernel or you won't get 
the USB hotplug events and thus you really can't use the USB devices.



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