Re: USB on dell 5100

[Abhay Pradhan <pradhan@ece.utexas.edu>]

On Wed Jul 30, 2003 at 08:03:14PM -0500 Shyamal Prasad chose to say...
> 
> Try telling is what you are seeing fail.
> 
> apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-686
> apt-get install hotplug
> 
> What is going wrong?
> 
> Cheers!
> Shyamal


well, i didnt know anything about hotplug. i just recompiled my kernel
(2.4.20) with USB support. 

Here is my relevant dmesg output


pradhan@herenya:~$ dmesg |grep -i "usb"
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x1cc0, IRQ 10
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x1ce0, IRQ 11
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
hub.c: new USB device 00:1d.0-1, assigned address 2
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 2
hub.c: new USB device 00:1d.1-1, assigned address 2
: USB HID v1.11 Keyboard [Microsoft Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop®
1.00] on usb2:2.0
: USB HID v1.11 Mouse [Microsoft Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop®
1.00] on usb2:2.1


so it has recognized both my mouse and keyboard. so now how do i get it
to work! :)