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Re: Help with USB Ethernet under linux

Panthera Altaica <> wrote:
> 
> Turns out it wasn't a kernel related error I had
> /proc/bus/usb mounted as usbfs(as the iux USB EtherNIC
> how to sayes) not usbdevfs  and of course everyone
> acts like odprobe magicaly sets everything up for you 
> uckly I noticd my laptop as useing usbdevfs(from the
> wacom HowTo itch is one of the few that tells you how
> to make all the changes to the file system you need) 

Your kernel is probably old. The old name is usbdevfs,
usbfs is the new name. They switched 'cause people were
confusing it with devfs.

> Any one know where you are supost to have
> /proc/bus/usb mounted on bootup btw?  haveing to
> manual mount it each time is a real PITA.

In /etc/fstab, using a line like:

usbfs           /proc/bus/usb   usbfs  defaults  0 0

But that won't work unless usb support is compiled into
the kernel or something loads the modules before the init
scripts mount everything. Nothing is likely to do that
so you probably want the line in fstab to be:

usbfs           /proc/bus/usb   usbfs  noauto  0 0

And a line in /etc/modules.conf like:

post-install usb-uhci mount /proc/bus/usb

Don't forget to run "depmod -a" after changing /etc/modules.conf

cheers,
Seth W. Klein
-- 
                         http://www.sethwklein.net/

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