Re: USB and kernel .config

From: Dances With Crows (danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows_at_usa.net)
Date: 11/12/03 

Date: 12 Nov 2003 14:50:36 GMT

On 12 Nov 2003 04:24:07 -0800, jj@murialdo.it staggered into the Black
Sun and said:
> I have a toshiba laptop and RH9. My USB smartmedia card reader works
> fine, but when I try to recompile the kernel (upgrading to 2.4.22 or
> 2.60.test9) there's no way to get things working.
>
> The involved modules are usb-ohci, usb-storage, scsi_mod, sd_mod. The
> host controller is recognized and the reader too, but no mapping to
> scsi (/dev/sda) is done.

Are all the relevant modules loaded according to lsmod? Post the output
of "lsmod && dmesg | tail -30" after you've plugged the device in.

> But kernel and all modules are compiled with no errors, and everything
> else is OK.

There are a bunch of suboptions for the usb-storage module. Turn them
all on except "USB Mass Storage Verbose Debug". 

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