hornett Posted February 26, 2004 Share Posted February 26, 2004 I've used apt-get to upgrade to the latest kernel and I'm wondering what I must do to enable USB? Kudzu sorts out my network card and I've changed the XF86Config file so X works until I can download the latest NVIDIA drivers but USB does not start ... and this is a big problem for me as I only have a USB mouse! Of course I have the 2.4 kernel still installed but I'd really love to get the new kernel working. Sorry if this is considered a lame question but I'm trying hard to learn the workings of Linux. Thank you. Distro: Fedora Core 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rezza Veteran Posted February 26, 2004 Veteran Share Posted February 26, 2004 umm... did you download a precompiled kernel, or did you build it yourself? If you built it yourself, make sure you enabled USB support ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bladerunner81 Posted February 26, 2004 Share Posted February 26, 2004 you might want to do a "lspci -v" and look for the type of usb-controller built into your sys, on mine it looks like: 0000:00:02.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 10 [OHCI]) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 002a Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10 Memory at d4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2 you can see from the first line that it is an "OHCI"-compatible controller, so i had enabled usb-ohci in kernel configuration as built-in. don't know how the module is called, but that one is definitley needed. also make sure the event-interface is enabled in kernel for handling of usb-interface-devices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hornett Posted February 26, 2004 Author Share Posted February 26, 2004 Right, I tried the lspci -v command and found out I was running UHCI. From there I was able to find that I needed to add to /etc/modprobe.conf the line "alias usb-controller1 uhci-hcd". Now I have working USB in 2.6 but I've noticed a number of other problems. For example when my system switches to runlevel 5, I get a message on screen saying the Microcode update could not be applied, also I cannot yet get my NVIDIA drivers installed. PS Am I right in thinking /etc/modprobe.conf is the 2.6 equivalent of /etc/modules.conf? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kongit Posted February 26, 2004 Share Posted February 26, 2004 edit: nevermind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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