modprobe, USB, and other modules

[Stefan Jeglinski]

>Thanks for the info. Yes, I am sure you are correct; this is a UHCI 
>card, now that I know what all of these things mean. No one ever 
>seems to take stuff out of a Mac and sell it separately. It is 
>obvious then, that I can't use this on the Mac OS side of things.
>
>But there is every indication that YDL can recognize and drive a 
>UHCI card and maybe an EHCI (UHCI) card, as well. I have only got 
>Mac OS9 loaded so I can boot to YDL, so I am in no way concerned 
>about using the Mac side of things.
>
>I would definitely be convinced that I am SOL, IF I got some sort of 
>error message stating that the device couldn't be read, was 
>incompatible, or just spewed out the usual string of error codes. 
>All I get is "modprobe: Can't locate module usb-uhci". I hope this 
>means I still have a chance.

Yes, I see what you mean, but I still don't know if you have a 
chance. I think the problem would be that uhci is never compiled by 
default into the kernel for ppc. Look in the USB support section of 
the kernel config. There's a selection for EHCI and 2 for UHCI, but I 
don't know how Intel-specific they are. Compile them as modules and 
you at least should not get the 'not found' modprobe error any more. 
After that, who knows?


Stefan Jeglinski