On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 21:08:26 +0200, Mario Frasca wrote: > > so I managed to install the new 2.6.8 kernel and boot it. I > understand that this is more modular, or maybe I should say > module oriented, so I have to load explicitly ethernet (or put > it into /etc/modules). > > my problem is that it looks like also usb has to be loaded as > a module, isn't it so? and I've got only one computer at > home, so I can't start this one, log in from the other (as I > said, I haven't got the other one!) and try which module to > load. > > you figure the situation: I boot it, I see that the mouse does > not react at all, the keyboard is totally dead, I panic quite > a lot more than the kernel, manage to wait five minutes hoping > that most disc activity has come to a pause, then I push the > switch and swear I won't start this again before being 100% > sure this is not going to happen again. > > any hints? but please, with something like 95% accuracy... > > the machine is a iMac (early 2001), NewWorld, 750CX, 500MHz > revision : 34.21 (pvr 0008 2215) > > thanks, > Mario.
You are right. Support for USB keyboards is modular, so you must make sure the correct modules get loaded at boot time, either by adding it manually to /etc/modules or /etc/mkinitrd/modules, or by installing a hardware detection package such as 'discover' or 'hotplug'. Perhaps the easiest thing to do (which worked for me) is to boot up using your old kernel, 'apt-install hotplug' and reboot. Select your new kernel and it should now load the USB modules as required. sebyte -- CC me by all means but a follow-up will usually do.
