[Gllug] Urgent Help re USB please

[Sharon Kimble]

On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 11:40:36 +0000
Stuart Sears <ssears at redhat.com> wrote:

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> On Friday 05 Mar 2004 11:33, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 11:30, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> > > Its rather urgent as I'm going out shopping at about 1500 and plan
> > > to buy the compatible one then, so any help is most gratefully
> > > received.
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> > I'd be _extremely_ surprised if your motherboard's onboard USB
> > controller wasn't Linux compatible.  What controller is it?  You can
> > use"lspci" to find out.
> I'd agree with this - I've been using via mobo's for about five years
> now and they've always worked...
> which distro are you using?
> you miight also try dmesg | grep usb to see what your kernel thinks
> you have..
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> Stuart Sears RHCE/RHCX
> Red Hat Certified Instructor

Stuart - thanks for this. The dmesg shows;-
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dmesg | grep usb
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 22:07:33 Feb 19 2004
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xc000, IRQ 10
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xbc00, IRQ 10
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xb400, IRQ 10
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xb000, IRQ 10
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
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And I haven't a clue how to use it! I'vd got a Palm m130 pda which
connects via a USB cradle, except mine doesn't seem to.

I'm using White Box Enterprise Linux 3 [essentially RHEL 3] with the
kernel being kernel-2.4.21-9.0.1.EL.athlon.rpm.

If I've got the ports, how do I get to use them please?

Sharon.

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