Re:[rhn-users] Kernel Support for USB

[Kenneth Sarno <kmsarno verizon net>]

> > I have been using Redhat WS 3 since May of this year and have not
> been
> > able to get any of my USB devices to work properly.  Any
> suggestions.
> > What about 2.6 kernel?  I am currently using 2.4.27.1 (latest
> version)
> > but with no luck for my USB applications.  Please advise...

I'm an ignorant newbie so don't pay too much attention to me, but about
six months ago I got a USB scanner to work by installing with insmod a
few kernel modules that were already present in the kernel's /lib/modules
directory. I guess that the stock kernel as distributed by Red Hat
doesn't have USB support enabled for some reason (????), but the required
installable modules for that support are supplied so you can enable it
yourself without having to rebuild or recompile anything.

I didn't write down and don't remember the modules I installed, but one
of them was scanner.o, one was uhci or ohci, and I believe there was a
third. I can't just do an lsmod for you, because that was several kernels
ago and I have since removed USB scanner support. There's a USB how-to
somewhere on the net that gives the specifics.

Sorry for the lack of info but I think it's the right general
direction.

--Ken S.