On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 08:21:26AM +0200, Jens Ansorg wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 22:16, Greg KH wrote:
> > You have to have an actual device for the /dev node to show up. Do you
> > have any USB devices plugged in? What does:
> > tree /sys/bus/usb/
> > show?
> >
>
> yes, I have both, a scanner and a printer plugged into the computer
>
> but there is nothing under /proc/bus/usb, it's empty
Please see:
http://www.linux-usb.org/FAQ.html#gs3
You probably have to mount usbfs yourself, as some distro's startup
scripts seem to not like 2.5 and don't do it for you.
> (there is no /sys/ on my PC?)
Make the directory:
mkdir /sys
and then mount sysfs there:
mount -t sysfs none /sys
Edit your /etc/fstab to add it so that it is always mounted at startup.
> the usbview application also complains that there is no usbfs although
> it gets registered by the core usb driver
Sounds like you don't have a USB host controller driver getting loaded,
right? What does lsmod show?
thanks,
greg k-h
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