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Sindi,
thank you very much for detailed and complete information: i will  try to do
accordingly.
(I think I will need some days).
Regards,

Giuseppe

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Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 9:20 PM
Subject: Re: [BL] usb ports in bl2/bl3


> 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
>
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