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by dlcox2

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Hi,
I recently purchased a Handspring Visor which
uses USB. I have never used USB prior to
this, consequently I had disabled the USB in
BIOS for the last year or so. When I enabled
the USB in Bios, the linux boot went haywire,
I lost access tomy soundcard, during the
boot I noticed several IRQ conflicts, etc.

Is there an elegant way of reconfiguring
this? or do I need to reinstall RH6.2 with
the USB enabled for linux to reappropriate
the resources?

Thanks for any help you can give,

Dave

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by eugen prokopiev

First of all, RedHat 6.2's kernel DON'T SUPPORT USB. You will need to upgrade your kerne to 2.4.x (last is 2.4.2) to have an USB support.

Eugen

by mckaytech

RedHat v7.0 supports USB very nicely. If you have a fast Internet connection, you can download the two 600meg ISO images and burn them to CD.

Or you can fork over the $19. Either way, it works well.

paul

by dlcox2

This info was helpful, but not what
I was looking for. I guess I neglected
to say I have a dual boot system, linux
& win98. My real issue was the
reconfiguring of linux so I wouldn't
have irq conflicts and consequently, no
sound. ( I LOVE MY MP3's!)
What I have been doing, was to
disable the usb in bios when booting to
linux and enabling it when going into
windows.

I resolved this one myself. I
remembered using a linux tool called
sndconfig and was able to select an
unused irq. I can now leave the usb
enabled in bios, and linux still plays mp3's

As to why I'm still in 6.2, I did
download RH7 the week It first came out,
but it was not a simple upgrade, as I
recall, I had problems with the video ...
Thanks all who tried.

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