Using USB with FC2 on a Tecra 8100
Getting USB to work under FC2 on a Toshiba Tecra 8100
Author: M Butcher
Date: 2004-07-09 22:14:24 -0500
I recently upgraded my Toshiba Tecra 8100 from Red Hat 8 to Fedora Core 2. Amongst the other nasty surprises, one that I found particularly irksome was the failure to recognize the USB hub. Turns out the solution was really quite simple.
BackgroundWhile I'm an avid Gentoo fan, I haven't brought myself to update my stable work system from a 2.4 kernel to a 2.6 kernel, so updating my Tecra laptop to FC2 to do some testing for a client ended up being my first experience with the new kernel.
I've written on USB usage for 2.4 kernels, and I assumed that the 2.6 interface would be pretty similar. So, when I couldn't find any USB info in /proc/bus/usb, and modprobing usb-core didn't work, I figured something was wrong. I googled and googled, but found no answers. Then, a posting to the NCLUG mailing list solved the problem.
The SolutionThe issue was that I was trying to insert the wrong modules. All I needed to do was modprobe uhci-hcd. After modprobing usb-storage, my PalmKey and digital camera could both be mounted without a hitch.
In short:
modprobe uhci-hcd modprobe usb-storage
Using dmesg, I could see that the USB hub was recognized and configured, and that /dev/sda1 had been assigned the PalmKey.
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