[Voyage-linux] voyage and 2.4 kernel?

[Robert Haskins]

Thanks for the info on the 2.4 kernel. I'll give that a whirl.

My application requires USB, provided by a 3.3v USB-to-PCI card. The 
issue I am having is that the net4501 locks up on restart about 50% of 
the time. And if it does come up, I'll usually get an error and the 
Soekris net4501 locks up when I try to access something hanging off one 
of the USB ports. If it doesn't come up, the machine will usually halt 
during the hotplug section when probing the USB devices. And if it 
*does* come up, I'll always be able to lock the net4501 up when I try to 
actually access a device hanging off the USB controller.

One of the errors I get a lot is:

usb 2-2: control timeout on ep0out

If you Google for that error, you'll see a number of references to 
unfixed USB related bugs in the 2.6.x kernels.

I *might* have better luck using the net4801 since it has hardware level 
USB support but I am trying to keep my costs down and I don't need the 
bells and whistles of the net4801. I'll have no other choice if I can't 
get the net4501 to work with the PCI-to-USB adapter, though.

Punky Tse wrote:
> - What issues you are having with 2.6 kernel?  
> - You can use 2.4 kernel, I have compiled 2.4 kernel, just "apt-get
> install kernel-image-2.4.26-486-voyage".  Please note that I don't
> maintain it any more. "apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.26-voyage"
> will get the source to /usr/src.