Hi Brad, thanks for the reply,
I finally got everything to work (and more) by installing the latest
hotplug scripts. The only downside is that some of the modules are
now always loaded, but that is probably unavoidable if you want
hotswapping.
Thanks for the reply.
David
Brad Hards writes: > David Ronis wrote:
> >
> > I have a SONY-Z505S laptop, running a newly updated linux-2.4.4--I've
> > been trying to get USB to work (as modules) and am having only partial
> > success. I built the kernel with the INPUT/USB options shown below,
> > and added the following to my /etc/modules.conf file:
> >
> > alias usb uhci
> > pre-install usb modprobe -k mousedev
> > pre-install mousedev modprobe -k hid
> > alias char-major-13 usb
> >
> > and created a /dev/input/mice node (with mknod /dev/input/mice c 13 63).
> >
> > This works for a logitech mouse if I'm root. However, as a regular
> > user it fails, basically because the pre-install steps (I've tried
> > post-install's also) can't run modprobe.
> I think its because you're screwing up the hid + input modules. Try insmoding
> the input.o module as well. However I normally build into the kernel, so this
> could be well off the mark.
>
> > I'm also having no success at getting the /proc/bus/usb filesystem to
> > automatically install, although I can get it to work manually with
> > mount.
> Put this into your /etc/fstab:
> none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0
>
> > # USB Human Interface Devices (HID)
> > #
> > CONFIG_USB_HID=m
> > CONFIG_USB_KBD=m
> > CONFIG_USB_MOUSE=m
> Why are you mixing the hidbp and full hid code?
>
> Brad
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