From: LANE WILLIAM HOY (email_suppressed_at_lugwash.org)
Date: Wed 01-Jun-2005 08:29:16 AM EDT
Joel,
I think that you might be running into a chicken-vs-egg situation here. I
suspect that the USB infrastructure that you need to have running is
entirely based on loadable modules, and your kernel is not loading them on
boot. The solution is to run /sbin/modprobe usb{kbd,mouse} via ssh, use
something like kudzu to pre-load the modules before the os grants a
console window, or recompile the kernel to statically link the needed
modules into the kernel. This last option requires that you statically
link in usbcore, ehci_hcd, uhci_hcd, usbkbd, usbmouse, and usbhid.
Lane Hoy
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On Tue, 31 May 2005, Joel Dillon wrote:
> On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 12:26:40PM -0400, David Evennou (Data Masters) wrote:
>> Hello members,
>>
>> I have been working with the local computer store to promote Linux.
>> The owner said that he has given out some Ubuntu CDs and the result has been
>> that the customers have had problems with getting the USB keyboard to work.
>> Is USB supported on Linux by default?
>
> Yes, it is (on vaguely modern Linux), and I don't have problems with USB
> keyboards. Is it a mapping issue? I.e. not that the keyboard
> doesn't work but that for some reason non-alphabetic symbols don't map
> to what's on the keyboard?
>
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> Jo
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