[Gllug] Urgent Help re USB please

[Andrew Halliwell]

And verily, didst Sharon Kimble announce to the hordes:
> 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?

Well... The kernel sees the USB, loads the correct modules.
So...
first off, 
ls /proc/bus/usb
if that comes up with an empty directory, you need to mount usbdevfs
mount -t usbdevfs none /proc/bus/usb
(I think is the correct incantation)

If it DOES come up with a listing, try plugging in a few usb devices and
typing

lsusb
this should list info about the ports and any devices plugged into them

the pda MIGHT appear as a usb storage device... Or, it might be awkward and
need something special to access it, I've never had a pda.

(something special, in the case of digital cameras, is gphoto2, for example)
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