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[Lee Forrest <lforrestster AT gmail.com>]

On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 06:38:05AM +1300, 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
> Lee Forrest wrote:
> >
> > So Steven, how is it that I can use my USB rat* with 
> > the stock BL3 setup 
> 
> Your mouse works with the default BL3?

Yes. And the keyboard. Both are USB.

> > but am having so much trouble using it with the 
> > newer kernel 
> 
> Which newer kernel?

2.4.19

> > and all of those USB support modules? 
> 
> I have no USB hardware.  I neither know nor care much
> about USB.  I have not tested the USB modules and make 
> no claim about whether they work or not.  I simply 
> compiled the modules that were there.  So far everything
> I have tried on my hardware works fine. 

For me too, with the default (or 'big') BL3 kernel. But they have
no support for my low-profile, multi-port serial card, which has
been the challenge here, as you know.

So I need to get a USB serial port or an older computer. I like
the latter choice better, because right now I have all of my eggs
in one basket. Only one computer. And using an older computer
sounds much more interesting.

I don't like USB either, but when I got this rig, I didn't know
anything.

The time is coming when you'll _have_ to deal with USB, right?
All of the computers produced in the last N years have it.

Most people would consider the computer I'm using now, which
I got about 5 years ago, to be old.

Lee