USB Backport is in kernel 2.2.18
if not just wack on a 2.2.19 prepatch
from ac and it will be in
USB has its sub menu, under character devices
and above Filesystems =)
Turn on support for USB then configure your
usb controller (if in doubt, put in both)
Youll want preliminary usb devfs if you dont
already use devfs (grin) and support for
hot pluggable usb devices.
I usually hard compile these in. Rhat likes
modules but its all linux =)
Then move on to the USB devices section and start
enabling.
You may also need i2c support, or video for linux.
I havent used scanners, but my logitech quickcam
(yes theres a v4l driver for them) needs usb and
video for linux support (which is fine since i have
a capture card on my v3tv... hence the tv. aaaanyway)
so yeah
look in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/usb
tells you how to set up the needed devices nodes
fstab etc.....
Dean
Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
> Hi folks. Well I'm back on the list. The London LUG list is friendly
> and somewhat helpful but doesn't have the volume and depth of knowledge
> of SLUG.
>
> So now onto my question. I want to get USB working to get my brand new,
> shiny Epson Perfection 610U scanner running. I'm having some trouble.
>
> My first thought was to run the new 2.4.0 kernel, but then ppp doesn't
> work on my Debian system. Is there somewhere I can set it to be
> backwards compatible in the same way the you can with NAT (make it
> ipchains or ipfwadm compatible).
>
> The other option is to use the 2.2.x backport of the USB code. Only
> thing is, I can't seem to work out how to turn on the options in make
> menuconfig/xconfig. There's USB stuff in the source tree in drivers/usb
> but no option to compile it in. Do I need to apply a patch or
> something?
>
> In case it's relevent, I'm using the Debian kernel source packages.
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