[Voyage-linux] voyage and 2.4 kernel?

[Punky Tse]

Please try to disable hotplug at startup and manually add modules to
/etc/modules to see any different.


On Apr 10, 2005 3:11 AM, Robert Haskins <rhaskins at cnetwork.com> wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 


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