On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 10:51:53PM -0500, Derek Juba wrote: > For anyone who was curious about this, it seems that there is no way to > use this particular Buslink USB drive with the 2.6.x kernel. Apparently > in the line > > I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff Driver=(none) > > from my /proc/bus/usb/devices, the "Cls=ff(vend.)" means the drive is > using a vendor specific protocol for which there is no built-in driver, > hence the "Driver=(none)". Some guy apparently wrote his own driver for > it, but won't be updating it for 2.6.x kernels. So, it looks like I'm > SOL, unless I want to take up kernel hacking...
FWIW, I believe you can port 2.4 modules to 2.6 without having to sacrifice too many goats... it would in the least be an interesting learning exercise :-) Kernel programming isn't that hard.. it's just different.. and very valuable to know (IMHO). - Rob .
