A colleague of mine is having problems with USB (a.k.a. "hotplug")
devices. He has a targus optical mini-mouse and a serial converter -
neither of which are usable under Linux. The competing product
from Redmond works fine ;-(
He has posted the attached mail to the relevant hotplug lists (so
please don't flame!), but since everyone here is so knowledgeable,
maybe someone can point us in the right direction?
TIA
J.
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I recently upgraded my IBM X20 notebook to Red Hat Linux 7.2 and would like to use a
couple of serial
devices that work fine when the computer is booted into WIN2K.
1) When a Targus PAUM003 USB mouse is plugged in, the following is printed
/var/log/messages:
Dec 12 13:38:25 mike-laptop kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1,
assigned device number 2
Dec 12 13:38:25 mike-laptop kernel: hub.c: USB hub found
Dec 12 13:38:25 mike-laptop kernel: hub.c: 2 ports detected
Dec 12 13:38:25 mike-laptop /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: ... no drivers for USB
product 451/2036/101
Dec 12 13:38:26 mike-laptop kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1/2,
assigned device number 3
Dec 12 13:38:26 mike-laptop kernel: input0: USB HID v1.00 Mouse [KYE Genius USB
Wheel Mouse] on usb1:3.0
Dec 12 13:38:26 mike-laptop /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: ... can't load module
mousedev
What needs to do next in order to use this mouse from Linux?
2) When a USC-2000 USB serial converter is plugged in, the following is printed in
/var/log/messages:
Dec 12 13:42:35 mike-laptop kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1,
assigned device number 4
Dec 12 13:42:35 mike-laptop kernel: hub.c: USB hub found
Dec 12 13:42:35 mike-laptop kernel: hub.c: 2 ports detected
Dec 12 13:42:35 mike-laptop kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1/2,
assigned device number 5
Dec 12 13:42:35 mike-laptop kernel: usb.c: USB device 5 (vend/prod 0x67b/0x2303)
is not claimed by any active driver.
Dec 12 13:42:35 mike-laptop /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: ... no drivers for USB
product 451/2036/101
Dec 12 13:42:35 mike-laptop /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: ... no drivers for USB
product 67b/2303/200
What needs to do next in order to use this USB to serial converter?
Thanks for your help,
Michael
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