[Gllug] knoppix

[Paul John Low]

Pete Ryland wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 06:51:27AM +0000, Paul John Low wrote:
> 
>>Andrew Halliwell wrote:
>>
>>>And verily, didst Paul John Low announce to the hordes:
>>>
>>>>I don't seem to get anything under /proc/bus/usb/ the usb view reports a 
>>>>error where as when I boot it up on knoppixCD it works fine.
>>>>
>>>>if I will have a look a the permission if got any other idea. I think 
>>>>the error is about the usbfsdev or something like that.
>>>
>>>
>>>Looks to me like usbdevfs isn't being mounted.
>>>
>>
>>Ok how I think I know what you mean can you tell me how to mount 
>>usbdevfs on startup. I use linux but I still try to find out how to 
>>configer it.
> 
> 
> It has to be compiled in your kernel, but it's extrememly likely that a
> stock distro kernel will have this.  From there, to mount the filesystem,
> use the command:
> 
> mount -t usbfs none /proc/bus/usb
> 
> as long as you already have an (empty) /proc/bus/usb directory.
> 
> To make this happen at boot time, put the following line in /etc/fstab:
> 
> none  /proc/bus/usb  usbfs  defaults  0  0
> 
> HTH,
> Pete
> 
Thanks I have ago at this and then get back to you.



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