On Mon, 22 May 2000, Dr J Hogan-Doran wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm a "new" user to Linux, and I'm working to get USB up on my PII450 with an
> "Intel 82371AB/EB PCI to USB Universal Host Controll" as reported by Windows98.
>
> I'm getting Oops panics 0.1second after the usb-uchi.o loads using the
> 99-pre8 kernel with the USB that
> came with it.
>
> I "upgraded" to http://usb.in.tum.de/download/usb/usb-latest.tgz which
> was version: 20000314.
>
> I subscribed to linux-usb mailing list and read 7 days of messages.
>
> A number of questions:
>
> 1. why does the mailing list discuss "usb-x.x.x-pre9-2" when the "usb-latest"
> claims to be version 20000314
You can get the kernel sources from www.kernel.org or its mirrors.
At the bottom of the welcome page the current sources are listed,
todays being
stable 2.2.15
beta 2.3.99-pre8
alpha 9-3
Clicking on the archive links to kernel gets you down to the sources
www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/
where the version directories are listed. v2.2 is for the stable,
v2.3 is where the beta is found.
the alpha patches are listed in the directory labeled "testing"
> 2. where can I grab the "up-to-date" source if this is not source tree we
> are discussing here, so I can "sync" with the mailing list
> 3. JE talks about the "alternate" driver for uhci. Is this included in
> the same usb-x.x.x-pre9-2 source tree or are there competing trees.
when you build a new kernel, you are asked questions about which uhci
driver you wish. There are two competing universal host ones: uhci and
usb-uhci. Use the one you wish to, either one.
> 4. Does using the alternate just mean:
> modprobe usbcore.o
> modprobe usb-uhci.o <-interchange-> modprobe uhci.o
> modprobe acm.o
>
> and the big question:
>
> its taking me 5-8 minutes to boot, fsck, login in and do "modprobe etc.."
> its taking linux 0.1 second to oops and panic
> I have /dev/swap and /dev/root
> how can I speed up this "testing loop" ?
> how can I ensure the oops message is logged to kernmsg ?
> what information do you want in reporting oops ?
> (ie i've seen people copy in their entire logs of kernmsg, init.rd,
> /dev/proc/pci etc...)
sorry, can't answer your big one. People post the information that is
closely related to their problem, and needed to evaluate it. Post the
details that help to evaluate events. You did not state what kernel
version you were using. dmesg command tells you, or cat /proc/version .
"modprobe etc.." is not as specific as could be stated. The patches
may require updating other programs, the modutils package being a
more recent -March. You may find you best course is to obtain the
recent kernel sources as a package.
regards,
gm
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Jon Hogan-Doran
> (p.s I requeted a FAQ on the mailing list via the mailing list server.. but
> there is none)
>
>
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