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On Tue, 15 May 2007 baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> Salve,
> Thanks to your hints and assistance I successfully installed BL3 and BL2
> (win98 already installed) on hd in my pentium I (32 Mb RAM) and everything
> works.
> I just added 4 USB 2.0 ports.

They require the ehci module.  I also added four ports to my computer, as 
a PCI card, when my onboard USB died.  They work with BL and a later 
kernel (2.4.31) with USB storage devices.

> What should I do to use? Is it possible to use the ports for a samsung laser
> printer (linux compatible since 2.2.x ), a scanner and usb keys? Which
> (packages and) modules should I add?

For USB storage devices (flash drive, external hard disk, USB zip disk, 
camera, memory card reader) use a 2.4 kernel and insert the basic USB 
modules plus usb-storage.o, which will identify the drive probably as 
sda1.  Mount /dev/sda1 /mnt.  I posted several USB-storage-capable kernels 
at http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl/2.4.31, such as bzimagsm.431 (which also 
has scsi support as modules), and also posted the modules to work with it.

http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl/blfiles.htm describes the files including 
the kernels that I have posted.

Omit the stuff in parentheses and make sure you have the following 
modules (they end in .o) in /lib/modules/2.4.31 in some directory such as 
kernel/drivers/usb/host, or even misc, and the flash drive plugged in (at 
least before you insert the last module):

insmod usbcore
insmod ehci             (for USB2.0, or for USB 1.0 uhci or usb-ohci)
insomd scsi_mod         (scsi emulation)
insmod sd_mod           (scsi disk emulation)
insmod usb-storage

You will see something about sda1 (first scsi hard disk, in this case an 
emulated one) unless you have other scsi devices already recognized).

Hit Enter key and

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt


Sindi

> Many thanks for help.
> Regards.
> Giuseppe