I have recently installed Gentoo 2004.3r1 on a system:
Kernel: 2.4.25 with EPIA patch
Mobo: VIA EPIA-M10000 Nehemiah
HDD: 200GB Western Digital
RAM: 256MB

this is meant to be a media machine, so getting the USB ports to work is crucial to success of this.

#lsusb
cannot open /proc/bus/usb, No such file or directory (2)

#lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8623 [Apollo CLE266]
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP]
0000:00:0d.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 80)
0000:00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
0000:00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
0000:00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
0000:00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82)
0000:00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
0000:00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
0000:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
0000:00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 74)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8623 [Apollo CLE266] integrated CastleRock graphics (rev 03)


i've compiled the ECHI and UHCI USB drivers into the kernel.

i've also tried recompiling the kernel with a combination of EHCI but not UCHI, UHCI but not ECHI, both, and i've even tried using OHCI.

i am at a loss here because lsmod does not return any loaded modules either.

any help with this matter is greatly appreciated,
CrazyYoyimbo

Use UCHI and plug something in and
also make sure you have coldplug and hotplug set for default runlevels

thank you for your reply; i have tried what you suggested, however, the problem still persists.

here is the output you requested:

# rc-update show
alsasound | boot
bootmisc | boot
checkfs | boot
checkroot | boot
clock | boot
coldplug | default
consolefont | boot
crypto-loop |
domainname |
gpm |
hdparm |
hostname | boot
hotplug | default
keymaps | boot
lircd |
lircmd |
local | default nonetwork
localmount | boot
modules | boot
net.eth0 | default
net.lo | boot
netmount | default
nscd |
numlock | default
rmnologin | boot
rsyncd |
serial | boot
sshd | default
urandom | boot

# dmesg | tail
Freeing unused kernel memory: 296k freed
Adding Swap: 1004020k swap-space (priority -1)
reiserfs: found format "3.6" with standard journal
reiserfs: checking transaction log (device ide0(3,6)) ...
for (ide0(3,6))
ide0(3,6):Using r5 hash to sort names
eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII #1 link partner capability of 41e1.
usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:10.0-2 address 2
hub.c: new USB device 00:10.0-2, assigned address 3
usb.c: USB device 3 (vend/prod 0xbc7/0x4) is not claimed by any active driver.

#lsusb
cannot open /proc/bus/usb, No such file or directory (2)

#lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
#

Thank You,
CrazyYoyimbo

Hope this helps;

# USB support
#
CONFIG_USB=y
# CONFIG_USB_DEBUG is not set

#
# Miscellaneous USB options
#
CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS=y
# CONFIG_USB_BANDWIDTH is not set
# CONFIG_USB_DYNAMIC_MINORS is not set
# CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND is not set
# CONFIG_USB_OTG is not set
CONFIG_USB_ARCH_HAS_HCD=y
CONFIG_USB_ARCH_HAS_OHCI=y

#
# USB Host Controller Drivers
#
CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD=y
# CONFIG_USB_EHCI_SPLIT_ISO is not set
# CONFIG_USB_EHCI_ROOT_HUB_TT is not set
# CONFIG_USB_OHCI_HCD is not set
CONFIG_USB_UHCI_HCD=y
# CONFIG_USB_SL811_HCD is not set

#
# USB Device Class drivers
#
# CONFIG_USB_AUDIO is not set
# CONFIG_USB_BLUETOOTH_TTY is not set
# CONFIG_USB_MIDI is not set
# CONFIG_USB_ACM is not set
CONFIG_USB_PRINTER=y

is that supposed to be the kernel config, or a config file?

i also forgot to mention that i'm using kernel 2.4.25 with the epia patch.

thank you,
CrazyYoyimbo

Yes that is the .config for a 2.6.10 kernel,may not help you,may want to try a new kernel just save your old one just incase.

thank you, switching to the new 2.6 epia kernel got the USB up and running

Thanks again
CrazyYoyimbo

Great,good job.