Re: USB keyboards and linux 2.6

[linux@climbincrete.com]

Hi,

You must have something like the following:

USB support  --->
     <*> Support for USB
     [ ]   USB verbose debug messages
     --- Miscellaneous USB options
     [*]   Preliminary USB device filesystem
     [ ]   Enforce USB bandwidth allocation (EXPERIMENTAL)
     --- USB Host Controller Drivers
     < >   EHCI HCD (USB 2.0) support (EXPERIMENTAL)
     < >   UHCI (Intel PIIX4, VIA, ...) support
     <M>   UHCI Alternate Driver (JE) support
     < >   OHCI (Compaq, iMacs, OPTi, SiS, ALi, ...) support
     --- USB Device Class drivers
	 .
	 .
     <M>   USB Mass Storage support
     [*]     USB Mass Storage verbose debug
	 .
	 .
     --- USB Human Interface Devices (HID)
     <M>   USB Human Interface Device (full HID) support

Cheers,

> Does anybody have a link to a quick howto on getting USB
> keyboards to work with kernel 2.6?  All my google searches on the
> subject turn up links on kernel 2.4, which tend to list kernel
> modules which aren't available on 2.6.  The "best" advice I've
> gotten thus far is to disable the kernel's entire USB subsystem!
> That is, let the BIOS handle the keyboard via legacy DOS support.
>
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