USB functionality

Beattie · Apprentice Joined: 24 Jun 2002 Posts: 155

I compiled my kernel taking care to enable the USB options that I wanted to make my devices work... or so I thought... I rebooted after compiling and installing it, and then plugged some of the devices that I have into the USB to see if they would come up in /dev/usb they didn't. I tried a gravis gamepad, an ipaq (I know there is no support but I just wanted to see a node come up), and a digital film reader. I have seen those same devices make nodes pop up in mandrake before and I was just wondering if anyone had any idea what more I might need to do. Could it maybe be a fault of the devfs ?

goosnargh · n00b Joined: 16 Jun 2002 Posts: 32

This a shot in the dark but I have no problems whatsoever with my usb setup and I have merged hotplug and usbutils packs in addition to setting up kernel for usb. That might solve your problem.

akhkharu99 · Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2002 1:12 am Post subject:

the way that i ensured that i would get support for all of my usb hardware is by compiling nearly every usb option as a module . i know this isn't the best way to go about doing this, but it worked.
p.s. i also have a gravis gamepad and it works.

sa · Guru Joined: 10 Jun 2002 Posts: 450

just curious does cat /proc/bus/usb/devices say anything?

mdpye · Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2002 7:26 pm Post subject:

LoL. I've compiled all the right support into my kernel, the startup sequence verifies the indentification of my USB1.1 and USB2 hubs and ports and yet /proc/bus/usb? No, I don't even have /proc/bus/usb/...!

This is really annoying... Any ideas?

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madpenguin8 · n00b Joined: 19 Jun 2002 Posts: 38 Location: Detroit MI

You need to enable the preliminary usb device filesystems in the kernel in the usb options. This will make /proc/bus/usb. Try it out, worked for me.

alpha3on · n00b Joined: 14 Jun 2002 Posts: 1

ipaq should work, there is a ipaq module in the kernel is it not? I'm now moving heaven and earth with getting my jornada usb to work the ipaq module - but tough luck so far, maybe the ipaq works out of the box.
You've got to insmod the usb device module (after the other prerequisites like usbdevfs) with a product and vendor value.
You can get those values with the usbview program or looking at the right place in /proc

Beattie · Apprentice Joined: 24 Jun 2002 Posts: 155

klieber · Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2002 1:29 pm Post subject:

moving to hardware forum.

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