Ethan wrote:
>
> if you need to use USB then you must get the 2.3 USB backport.
Is this in what I've heard referred to as "Paul's rsync tree"?
In either case, where can I find it?
> fortunatly Alan decided to just throw in the towel and include the 2.3
> USB backport in 2.2.18 since pretty much every distribution included
> the patches in thier kernels anyway, its well tested and 2.2's USB is
> quite worthless so why not?
Yay! While he's in a good mood we should send him mo
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 08:51:07AM -0700, Harold G. Stevenson wrote:
>
> Is this true for G3's also?
if you need to use USB then you must get the 2.3 USB backport. 2.2
USB is a widely known joke. its worthless, iirc the config help
section for it says DON'T USE THIS, ITS CRAP! ;-)
if
> Is this true for G3's also?
> >
> > Stock 2.2.17 (and earlier) don't include the USB backport from 2.3 which
> > is required for PPC. Use one of the PPC kernel source archives.
I haven't tried but I can't think of a reason why G4 machines would behave
different from G3 ones WRT USB.
Is this true for G3's also?
Harold
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > I'm trying to build a kernel from stock source to see if
> > it can be done, and managed to boot one that worked well except
> > for usb support. All usb devices were unresponsive, but I
>
> Stock 2.2.1
> I'm trying to build a kernel from stock source to see if
> it can be done, and managed to boot one that worked well except
> for usb support. All usb devices were unresponsive, but I
Stock 2.2.17 (and earlier) don't include the USB backport from 2.3 which
is required for PPC. Use one of the PPC
I'm trying to build a kernel from stock source to see if
it can be done, and managed to boot one that worked well except
for usb support. All usb devices were unresponsive, but I
could ssh into the box and see the following in the logs:
Sep 18 21:49:18 obelisk kernel: OHCI USB Driver loading
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