On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 10:23:04AM -0600, Nathan Poznick wrote: > Thus spake Joan Tur: > > I installed from 1 Woody CD, then from the net. As both printer (Epson C82) > > and scanner (Epson 610) are usb I need usb support to be installed... but it > > is not by default: > <snip> > > A few more details: > > 1. kernel installed is 2.2.20-idepci, > > 2. I have no usb* modules in /lib/modules > > 3. There's only 1 directory, called "pci", at /proc/bus > > The -idepci kernel doesn't contain the usb modules, and you will need > the userspace 'hotplug' package to take advantage of the usb support. Yes, and this is mentioned in the Install Guide, so people have no excuse for not knowing :) > You will most likely need to do the following: > > apt-get install kernel-image-2.2.20 hotplug > > It would probably be better to go to a 2.4 kernel -- I believe the usb > support in 2.4 is more complete. Yup. > (kernel-image-2.4.18-586 for a pentium-optimized kernel) -586tsc :) -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> http://ertius.org/
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