I thought I'd follow up with my findings re my troubles. Yes, indeed, the kernel had USB built in, despite me changing the config. What happened was this:
If one follows (as I did) the default path when installing Gentoo, one ends up with three partitions - a boot (/dev/hda1), a swap (/dev/hda2) and a root (/dev/hda3) partition. On bootup, /dev/hda1 is mounted to /boot, and then _unmounted_ once the kernel's up. Now I was gaily copying my new bzImage to /boot... only I hadn't mounted /dev/hda1, and hence never overwrote the installed kernel. The Valuable Lesson In Life here is twofold - if you think it's your hardware at fault, you're almost certainly wrong, and Know Your Distro. Had I paid more attention to the installation procedure & the associated docs, I would have known about /dev/hda1 being mounted only long enough to get the kernel running. At any rate, my modem's working fine, and initialising & doing what it's supposed to be doing. I still can't connect to my ISP because I've malconfigured my pppd or something, but that's another story :) Thank you for your assistance, Timothy and Johannes! frank ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Jabber - The world's fastest growing real-time communications platform! Don't just IM. Build it in! http://www.jabber.com/osdn/xim _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
