RE: USB hub driver

Dunlap, Randy (randy.dunlap@intel.com)
Wed, 17 Nov 1999 07:48:44 -0800


Hi Matt-

The hub driver is being merged into the usbcore.
It won't be a separately-loadable driver|module.

In the meantime, Marcus Sundberg posted this to the
linux-usb mailing list:

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Menno Schaap <mennos@capitolonline.nl> writes:

> Hi,
> I found this site about wheelmouse's
> It works for me
> http://solaris1.mysolution.com/~jcatki/imwheel
>
> Question:
> When I start X, the modules for usbmouse(mouse.o) and the usbcore.o are
> automatically loaded due to setting in /etc/modules.conf. But is there
anyone
> who knows how to load usb-uhci.o and hub.o automatticaly. A file in
> /etc/rc.d/boot.local won't work because I use multiple kernels, also
without
> USB.

Stick the following into your modules.conf:
above usbcore usb-uhci hub

//Marcus

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> -----Original Message----- > From: Matthew Dharm [mailto:mdharm@one-eyed-alien.net] > Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 1999 11:54 PM > To: Linux Kernel Developer Mailing-list > Subject: USB hub driver > > > I just tried the USB code for the first time after being away > from it for > a while. I have to say, it looks much nicer than it did 6 months ago. > > But, to my astonishment, I found that I could modprobe > usb-ohci and, while > it would properly load usbcore automatically, it didn't > automatically load > the hub driver. > > Is there any way to make the hub driver load along with > usbcore? I think > I can reconfigure kerneld via /etc/conf.modules to load hub with some > special statements in that file, but is there a better solution? > Realistically, I don't think it's a good idea to allow > loading of either > OHCI or UHCI without the hub driver, especially with all the > devices which > have hubs in them (perhaps without the end-user knowing about them). > > Matt Dharm > > -- > Matthew Dharm InterNIC: MDD94 > Engineer, Qualcomm, Inc. Cell: > (619) 890-6943 > Home: mdharm@one-eyed-alien.net Home: > (858) 689-1908 > Work: mdharm@qualcomm.com Work: > (858) 651-7649 > Beep: page-matt@one-eyed-alien.net Beep: > (858) 621-8155 > > It was a new hope. > -- Dust Puppy > User Friendly, 12/25/1998 > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >

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