On Sunday 08 Sep 2002 6:25 pm, Adam Bower wrote:
On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 06:13:16PM +0100, Ian Thompson-bell wrote:
You don't need it in your kernel. Al you need is USB support then load the module appropriate to your chipset, and there are only two to choose from.
well there are 4 USB chipsets now, but you have a choice of OHCI, UHCI and EHCI.. but you have a choice of 2 modules/drivers for the UHCI chipset which is what i would wager Ricardo has, so he will have to try both of them and see which works better (or at all)
You live an learn. I was not aware of the EHCI chipset. I am running RH7.3 on a Dell 2650 laptop. RH Detected the USB and lsmod shows usb-uhci is loaded but I can see no way of determing which of the two UHCI drivers this is. lspci says the chip is USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub (rev 02).
Sorry to be pedantic about this but it can be confusing as when you select building the driver into the kernel support for one of the UHCI chipsets the option for the other one disappears! which really confused me for a while when i was trying to get my ADSL modem working...
I have never understood why people want to build monolithic kernels. Modules were introduced just so this could be avoided. I can understand rebuilding to get rid of unused stuff but surely modules are more flexible and resource efficient?
ian