Re: Need help with USB
Make sure you have the following in /etc/fstab:
none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0
if you add that during a session, do a:
mount -a
as root to mount the USB devices.
ap
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Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
clists@perrin.socsci.unc.edu * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu
On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, Paul E Condon wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 12:02:42PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> > Kent West wrote:
> >
> > >Paul E Condon wrote:
> > >
> > >>I am attempting to get working a USB connection from
> > >>my Sarge machine to a Handspring Visor. I have never before had USB
> > >>working on this machine (never tried
> > >>before).
> > >
> > >
> > Also, usbview might be of some value to you.
> >
> > --
> > Kent
> >
> Thanks, Kent. But ...
> I remembered selecting ttyUSB0 during configure of jpilot.
> I used dpkg-reconfigure to re-do that and select ttyUSB1.
> Didn't change the results. I installed usbview, and have
> a new error message that may give a clue as to what I should
> do next. When I try to run usbview I get an error box containing
>
> "Can not open the file /proc/bus/usb/devices
>
> Verify that you have USB compiled into your kernel,
> have the USB core modules loaded, and have the
> usbdevfs filesystem mounted."
>
> The stock kernel that I'm using seems to have USB support, and
> according to lsmod, usbcore and usb-uhci are loaded.
> But I haven't done anything about usbdevfs. This is the first
> I've heard of it. I don't find a debian package for usbdevfs
> or anything about it in man pages, so where do I find out about
> usbdevfs?
>
>
> --
> Paul E Condon
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>
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