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Hi Matt-

The hub driver is being merged into the usbcore.
It won't be a separately-loadable driver|module.

In the meantime, Marcus Sundberg posted this to the
linux-usb mailing list:

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Menno Schaap <mennos@capitolonline.nl> writes:

> Hi,
> I found this site about wheelmouse's
> It works for me
> http://solaris1.mysolution.com/~jcatki/imwheel
>
> Question:
> When I start X, the modules for usbmouse(mouse.o) and the usbcore.o are
> automatically loaded due to setting in /etc/modules.conf. But is there
anyone
> who knows how to load usb-uhci.o and hub.o automatticaly. A file in
> /etc/rc.d/boot.local won't work because I use multiple kernels, also
without
> USB.

Stick the following into your modules.conf:
above usbcore usb-uhci hub

//Marcus
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Marcus Sundberg | http://www.stacken.kth.se/~mackan
Royal Institute of Technology | Phone: +46 707 295404
Stockholm, Sweden | E-Mail: mackan@stacken.kth.se
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Dharm [mailto:mdharm@one-eyed-alien.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 1999 11:54 PM
> To: Linux Kernel Developer Mailing-list
> Subject: USB hub driver
>
>
> I just tried the USB code for the first time after being away
> from it for
> a while. I have to say, it looks much nicer than it did 6 months ago.
>
> But, to my astonishment, I found that I could modprobe
> usb-ohci and, while
> it would properly load usbcore automatically, it didn't
> automatically load
> the hub driver.
>
> Is there any way to make the hub driver load along with
> usbcore? I think
> I can reconfigure kerneld via /etc/conf.modules to load hub with some
> special statements in that file, but is there a better solution?
> Realistically, I don't think it's a good idea to allow
> loading of either
> OHCI or UHCI without the hub driver, especially with all the
> devices which
> have hubs in them (perhaps without the end-user knowing about them).
>
> Matt Dharm
>
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