USB on Linux 2.2.x kernel
Jim Roland
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Tony Nugent
> Where can I locate information and drivers on using USB with
> Kernel 2.2.x? I am unable to locate any information on the LDP
> mirrors.
No support there that I am aware of -- it would be a massive hack to
patch usb support into the 2.2.x kernel - although it is possible
that someone might have actually done this. And even then, I
wouldn't trust its stability or functionality.
Use the (pre-) 2.4.x kernels, the support for it is now there by
default. Last time I looked, usb support was coming along very
nicely indeed (it seemed to work quite well - although I didn't test
it very much). You might need to upgrade some other system packages
for using the 2.4.x kernels, but this shouldn't be too much of a
drama. (I didn't bother when I was looking at the pre-2 version
release).
Good luck.
Cheers
Tony
Michael H. Warfield
> On Tue Jun 20 2000 at 03:36, Jim Roland wrote:
> > Where can I locate information and drivers on using USB with
> > Kernel 2.2.x? I am unable to locate any information on the LDP
> > mirrors.
> No support there that I am aware of -- it would be a massive hack to
> patch usb support into the 2.2.x kernel - although it is possible
> that someone might have actually done this. And even then, I
> wouldn't trust its stability or functionality.
Then I suppose you are unaware of this:
http://www.suse.cz/development/usb-backport/
It's a backport of the 2.4 usb drivers into the 2.2 kernel.
Currently it's backporting 2.4.0-test2-pre2 for 2.2.16.
Attached below is the announcement message...
> Use the (pre-) 2.4.x kernels, the support for it is now there by
> default. Last time I looked, usb support was coming along very
> nicely indeed (it seemed to work quite well - although I didn't test
> it very much). You might need to upgrade some other system packages
> for using the 2.4.x kernels, but this shouldn't be too much of a
> drama. (I didn't bother when I was looking at the pre-2 version
> release).
> Good luck.
>
> Cheers
> Tony
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Message-ID: <D5E932F578EBD111AC3F...@orsmsx31.jf.intel.com>
From: "Dunlap, Randy" <randy....@intel.com>
To: "'Konstantin Knips'" <kkn...@gmx.de>
Cc: "'linux-...@vger.rutgers.edu'" <linux-...@vger.rutgers.edu>
Subject: RE: usb support for 2.2.16
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 07:16:39 -0700
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Hi!
I've updated the USB backport to 2.2.16 and 2.4.0-test1-ac21. You can get
it at the usual location: http://www.suse.cz/development/usb-backport/
It has added (experimental) support for APM, contains CPiA 1.0 code and
fixes some module loading problems with the serial driver.
It's not tested very thoroughly, because I wanted to release it as soon
as possible. If you find any bugs, please report them to me, and I'll
fix them as soon as I can.
Enjoy.
--
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
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~Randy
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Konstantin Knips [mailto:kkn...@gmx.de]
> Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 6:03 AM
> To: muc-lists-l...@moderators.muc.de
> Subject: usb support for 2.2.16
>
>
> is there any working patch to enable usb support in 2.2.16?
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