[Voyage-linux] Voyage and USB?

[Punky Tse]

Robert,

Find out what kernel image that ubuntu uses, and install it over your
voyage installation of CF.  Try to see if it still failed to load this
time.  This let me know whether it is kernel driver problem or the
hardware detection problem.

I am not famailar with ubuntu systems, but you could probably traced
/etc/apt/source.list in ubuntu and download the kernel image deb
manually.

Punky

On 7/2/05, Robert Haskins <rhaskins at cnetwork.com> wrote:
> I finally was able to test ubuntu-4.10 (full distribution booting off of
> a hard drive) on my Mini-ITX system, and just as expected, the USB stuff
> works fine. However, I still get the over-current error message when I
> boot the voyage kernel you built for me with USB support. This leads me
> to believe that this *must* be a problem with what's being left out of
> the voyage kernel. Or am I wrong?
> 
> I think what I'll do next is attempt a kernel build with the full 2.6.8
> kernel config/driver set, hoping that it'll fit on a 128MB flash with
> the regular Voyage distribution. If it doesn't, I'll probably invest in
> a large enough flash to accept a full 2.6.8 config/driver set, then
> strip it down from there until I figure out what is missing.
> 
> Does this sound reasonable? I've looked at the dmesg/lsmod output, and
> nothing jumps out at me. I'm starting to run out of options here....
> 
> Thanks for your help!
> 
> Punky Tse wrote:
> > Robert,
> >
> > ubuntu is a debian/knoppix derivative, I believe the kernel code
> > should be very similar to debian and the one in voyage.
> >
> > I would suggest you to compare the output of dmesg and lsmod from FC3,
> > ubuntu & voyage to see what are the differences.
> >
> > On 6/12/05, Robert Haskins <rhaskins at cnetwork.com> wrote:
> >
> >>Personally, I think this is just a buggy USB driver. To add to the
> >>confusion, the 3v VIA PCI<==>USB adapter works just *fine* on my ubuntu
> >>system with kernel 2.6.8.1-3-386. And, the same adapter with usbserial
> >>adapters work fine on my FC3 system (for which I don't have the kernel
> >>version handy, but obviously, it is a recent kernel.)
> >>
> >
> >
> 


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