On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 02:56:38PM -0500, J. Lasser wrote:
> In the wise words of Joe Pfeiffer:
>
> > I've been tempted to try the USB support for a while... it would be
> > nice to be able to use the floppy drive on my Sony VAIO!
> >
> > I'm currently running 2.2.12 (ie RedHat 6.1). Do you have an idea of
> > the full set of packages (kernel, pcmcia, headers, docs, etc) that
> > would be necessary to move to the backpatched 2.2.13 kernel?
>
> Nope. But AFAIK there's no driver yet for the floppy anyway. (If I'm
> wrong on this please let me know...)
>
There is initial support for floppy drives over USB. Read only seems to
work fine, but there's no guarantee about the validity of the data if
you write to them.
> From 2.2.12 to 2.2.13 I don't think it's much: I think you simply need
> to have the 2.2.13 kernel source, the most recent 2.3.x usb driver
> source, and SuSE's backport patch, but I've not tried it that way, so I
> don't know if that's correct.
>
Take a look at http://www.suse.cz/development/usb-backport/ for full
instructions on getting the backport to work.
Also look at http://www.linux-usb.org/ for further information on getting
Linux running with USB.
greg k-h
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