usb support in kernel 2.4.28

[Net Llama!]

On 01/02/2005 07:40 AM, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote:
> Man-wai Chang wrote:
> 
>> I am still using Caldera Openlinux 3.1.
>> I could `locate hotplug` and found some files, but `ps ax` showed no 
>> active hotplug daemon.
>>
>> /var/log/hotplug
>> /opt/kde2/share/apps/hotpluguid
>> /sbin/hotplug
>> /lib/hotplug
>> /lib/hotplug/hotplug-net
>> /lib/hotplug/hotplug-pci
>> /lib/hotplug/hotplug-usb
> 
> 
> Hotplug is basicly running on your system (as can be seen from your 
> dmesg output), but to get it working you need a set of scripts in 
> /etc/hotplug/ which you can download from the sourceforge site.
> 
> *But* in in your case, hotplug is a distractor (sorry Lonni). It's 
> convenient to have it, but the usb drive should be working without it. 
> My blind guess is that your scsi subsystem is not running at all 
> (substantiated by the lack of /proc/scsi after plugging in the drive).
> Looking at your kernel config that you posted earlier, I think that 
> anything needed is there, so I can only guess even more blindly:
> 
> 1. All your scsi stuff is compiled *into* the kernel. I've never done 
> that, and I don't know if it matters. Perhaps you can try to compile 
> them as modules.
> 
> 2. As Lonni suggested, scsi emulation might be necessary for this 
> special drive (although I don't think so). But it can't do any damage, 
> so try
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI=y (or better: =m). As far as I remember, to get 
> scsi emulation running, you have to append something like 
> 'ide-scsi=/dev/hdb' (or hdc, hdd) as a kernel parameter in your boot 
> loader configuration file.

And there's always the side issue of the distro you're using.  I'd feel 
fairly confident that this would all 'just work' if you were running a 
distro that was released in the past year or 2.  Caldera-3.1 is 
something like 4 years old now?

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