You should also be able to do
alias usbdevfs usbcore
Which will cause usbcore to be auto-loaded when you try to mount the
filesystem.
Matt Dharm
On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, kenneth topp wrote:
>
> try in modules.conf:
>
> post-install usbdevfs mount /proc/bus/usb
>
>
> I compile it all in so I haven't tried this, but it should work.
>
> Kenneth
>
>
> On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Harold Oga wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > In helping someone get the USB backport up and running on a Redhat 6.2
> > machine, I ran across minor problem that really isn't a problem, but I'm
> > wondering if there is a solution for. Here's the situation:
> >
> > You build usbcore and usb-uhci as modules, and you have an entry in
> > /etc/fstab to allow for mounting of the usbdevfs at bootup time.
> > However, nothing needs the usb drivers until after the time that the
> > local filesystems are mounted, then mount complains rightly about
> > unknown filesystem usbdevfs. In my case, the only usb device I have is
> > a MS Intellimouse Explorer, so the usb stuff does not get loaded, if I
> > build it as a modules, until gpm is run.
> >
> > The only 2 solutions to this minor annoyance that I can get to work so far
> > is to either insert a modprobe usb-uhci before the mounting of the local
> > filesystems, or building usbcore and usb-uhci into the kernel directly, rather
> > than as modules. Is there something that can be inserted in /etc/modules.conf
> > to get the usb-uhci to load when mount goes to try and mount usbdevfs?
> >
> > -Harold
> >
>
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