Randall R Schulz wrote: > [...] > 1) Specific recommendations on the most expedient way to endow the > kernel in openSUSE 10.2 with this USB support. In particular, is it > possible to simply load (or build and load) a kernel module to reenable > the USB filesystem (known variously as usbfs, usbdevfs, USB_DEVICEFS, > or /proc/bus/usb)?
usbfs is not implemented as a separate kernel module. As far as I know, you need to recompile the usbcore module if you want to re-enable usbfs. > 2) Assuming a full kernel rebuild is required, I'd like to get some > recommendations for informational resources of a tutorial nature on how > to build a late-model kernel with emphasis on anything > openSUSE-specific or -related. I found this How-To Forge article: > <http://www.howtoforge.com/kernel_compilation_suse>. If anyone is > familiar with it and can comment on its usefulness, that would be > helpful. Well, I would not really recommend this Howto, but that's just my personal opinion :) > [...] > 1. Install kernel-sources and kernel-syms > 2. copy .config and Modules.symvers from /usr/src/linux-obj/<your > kernel> to /usr/src/linux > 3. make oldconfig > 4. make menuconfig, select the usbfs > 5. make modules && make modules_install > 6. change noauto to auto for the usbfs in fstab > 7. reboot > 8. ta-da I think, the following procedure might work (however, it's untested since I do not have a 10.2 installation): $> cd /usr/src/linux $> make cloneconfig $> vi .config change # USB_DEVICEFS is not set to USB_DEVICEFS=y $> make oldconfig $> make drivers/usb/core/usbcore.ko and then install this new module (i.e. replace the standard usbcore.ko module in /lib/modules/`uname -r`/ with this new one). That should avoid the time-consuming process of compiling all modules (make modules). However, this will only work if all the USB_DEVICEFS functionality is really contained in the usbcore module (I think it is but I am not 100% sure). If not, then you have to re-compile additional modules and a "make modules" might be a safe way to do it. Maybe someone using 10.2 can report which way works best. Please note that this method is not using a build directory, i.e. it will build the module(s) in place (i.e. in the kernel source tree). Also note that you'll have to go through this procedure again after upgrading a SuSE kernel. Cheers, Th. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
