Re: 2.6 and usb

[Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com>]

Hello

Aurel (<aurel.ric@free.fr>) wrote:

> I'm using sid and I've just upgraded my kernel from 2.4.22 to 2.6.4
> everything's good but:
> to have my usb mouse working, i used to modprobed usb-uhci, now I
> have to load uhci_hcd.
> 
> Why did this module change its name?

Ask the Kernel developers.

> Is it the same module? 

Yes. If you want to use both Kernel versions, add something like

alias usb-uhci uhci_hcd

to /etc/modprobe.d/aliases

and run update-modules. That way "modprobe usb-uhci" will also work with
2.6.

best regards
        Andreas Janssen

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