[I appologize if
this message was posted twice, I received a "suspicious header" warning from the
listserver when the message was originally posted.]
Several weeks ago I
posted a message about a problem I was having with RedHat 7.2 and my IOGear USB
KVM (CS124U) switch. The KVM works fine in DOS, Windows, and even in
the Grub boot loader, however when Linux boots up, my keyboard and mouse (both
MS USB devices) are dead. After my postined, I received several
emails informing me that this is a well-known problem with the IOGear [Aten]
device and that a fix was applied to the USB source for an upcoming kernel.
At the time I was using 2.4.18 (downloaded from a RedHat RPM update) and was told that 2.4.19 would include the fix. Yesterday I downloaded kernel 2.5.7 from www.kernel.org hoping that it would fix my problem. I am not exactly sure what the difference between the latest 2.4.19.pre3 and 2.5.7 is (meaning, I don't know what a pre3 exactly is, and how I would install it vs 2.5.7), so I simply downloaded, compiled, and installed 2.5.7. Everything went well, however my USB mouse and keyboard with the IOGear KVM switch still do not work.
I compiled in HID
and USB-OHCI (what my Asus motherboard needs) and the kernel detected the
hardware on bootup (as it did before); however the kb and mouse still don't
work.
I did a
cursory check of the source file that I believe the fix was applied to, and it
appears to be there. Is there something else I need to do?
Here is a few lines of my boot if it helps:
usb.c: registered
new driver usbfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb.c: registered new driver hub
[...other
stuff...]
usb-ohci.c: USB
OHCI at membase 0xd0816000, IRQ 9
usb-ohci.c: usb-00:02.0, Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5237 USB
hcd.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found at /
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: v1.31:USB HID core driver
[...more stuff...]
usb-ohci.c: usb-00:02.0, Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5237 USB
hcd.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found at /
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: v1.31:USB HID core driver
[...more stuff...]
hub.c: new USB
device on bus 1 path /2, assigned address 2
input.c: calling /sbin/hotplug input [HOME=/ PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin ACTION=add PRODUCT=3/557/2202/100 NAME=ATEN CS124U V1.00]
input: USB HID v1.00 Keyboard [ATEN CS124U V1.00] on usb1:2
input.c: calling /sbin/hotplug input [HOME=/ PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin ACTION=add PRODUCT=3/557/2202/100 NAME=ATEN CS124U V1.00]
input: USB HID v1.00 Mouse [ATEN CS124U V1.00] on usb1:2
input.c: calling /sbin/hotplug input [HOME=/ PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin ACTION=add PRODUCT=3/557/2202/100 NAME=ATEN CS124U V1.00]
input: USB HID v1.00 Keyboard [ATEN CS124U V1.00] on usb1:2
input.c: calling /sbin/hotplug input [HOME=/ PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin ACTION=add PRODUCT=3/557/2202/100 NAME=ATEN CS124U V1.00]
input: USB HID v1.00 Mouse [ATEN CS124U V1.00] on usb1:2
Thanks,
Tom
