Re: USB & 2. 4 kernels

[Bud Rogers <budr@sirinet.net>]

On Monday 06 May 2002 06:51 am, Thomas R. Shemanske wrote:
> USB modules (for keyboard and mouse (HID devices)) need to be
> compiled staticly into the kernel (not loaded as modules) so they are
> available at boot time.  You can do this with dynamically modules but
> only if you run an initrd kernel (such as the stock Debian kernels).

Following advice of David Roundy, I built a 2.4.17 kernel plus relevant 
usb modules.  My trackball works fine.  

budr@twocups:~$ uname -a
Linux twocups 2.4.17 #5 Sun May 5 21:50:31 CDT 2002 i686 unknown
budr@twocups:~$ sudo lsmod| grep -iE 'usb|mouse|hci'
uhci                   24392   0  (unused)
mousedev                3808   1
usbmouse                1792   0  (unused)
input                   3072   0  [mousedev usbmouse]
usbcore                52064   0  [uhci usbmouse]
budr@twocups:~$

Thanks, David!

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