USB in linux question

e980238 · October 19th, 2002, 01:15 PM

I am trying to use an external optical USB mouse on my laptop with redhat 7.3 but it is not working. When I type insmod usb-uhci the mouse laser flashes and then shuts off. Is there some step that I am missing?

e980238 · October 19th, 2002, 02:28 PM

I found this from http://www.linux-usb.org:

Quote:

Q: How do I make USB work on my Sony Vaio laptop? A:You may need to turn off the BIOS option for Plug-n-Play operating system support on some models of Vaio. Then USB should work fine, although you may have problems with using the modem. This is only needed on some models. This solution also worked on the Gateway 2000 Solo 5150 notebook.

I tried that but it still does that same thing

Germ · October 19th, 2002, 05:00 PM

Try this,

su to root and open /etc/modules.conf in an editor and add this line: alias mouse usbmouse Save and reboot.

Germ

e980238 · October 19th, 2002, 05:07 PM

Nope,
still only flickers when it loads the USB module and then it just turns off completley.

Germ · October 19th, 2002, 05:09 PM

It's starting to sound like a hardware problem.

e980238 · October 19th, 2002, 05:15 PM

i found something on linux-laptop.net but I have to recompile the kernal. I am really not sure how to do that. I have Sony Vaio PCG-FX240 BTW

Peter M · October 20th, 2002, 06:10 AM

You need to load much more drivers than just the USB _controller_ driver. How about the USB _device_ hot plug services and driver stack?

e980238 · October 20th, 2002, 11:23 AM

do you know the module name for those?

Peter M · October 20th, 2002, 01:00 PM

mousedev, hid, input, ... but if you have the USB services running properly, they'd be autoloaded upon detection of a mouse.

e980238 · October 20th, 2002, 02:18 PM

I think that none of this will work unless i do this:
http://www.pm.waw.pl/~jslupski/vaio/#usb
But I am unsure on how to recompile the kernal