My Linux box doesn't recognize USB ports ?

[lorenzo.zampese@electrolux.it]

I think my Linux box (i386) doesn't recognize USB ports, because I am not
able to use the USB joystick.
My motherboard hasn't got any USB controller built in,  but I have got a PCI card with a USB controller
and 2 USB ports.

I red some documentation about configuring USB on Linux and I watched "/proc/bus/usb" doesn't exist
but only "/proc/bus/pci" and "/proc/pci".
I watched in "/proc/pci" my PCI card with the USB controller is recognized...

I made my own kernel with USB support (usbcore.o, usb-hdci.o, hid.o, input.o,  joydev.o, etc.)
and I tested it using:

jstest /dev/input/js1
jstest /dev/input/js2
jstest /dev/input/js3

and every time it reported me a message like this "device not found" ,
but devices are present in :

/dev/input/js1
/dev/input/js2
/dev/input/js2

Note : /dev/input/js0 is used by another analog joystick attached to the
SB128 PCI (Creative Ensoniq) gameport and it works fine as the sound card.

Any idea ?

Thank you