What is needed for USB pen drive support?

lali.p · 04-19-2007, 02:46 PM

what options are needed to be built into a kernel or compiled as modules if i need usb support(particulrly for pen drive).
I have compiled a 2.6.20 kernel and when i connect a usb and then do
fdisk -l
it shows my hdd partitions but it doesn't show my pen drive

Does USB has anything to do with SCSI support? because i had disabled it during kernel compile as i dont have any SCSI device on my computer.

Any help is appreciated

Thanks

H_TeXMeX_H · 04-19-2007, 02:52 PM

Please read the help on EVERYTHING in the kernel config. It clearly states:

Quote:

CONFIG_SCSI:

If you want to use a SCSI hard disk, SCSI tape drive, SCSI CD-ROM or any other SCSI device in Linux, say Y ...

You also need to say Y here if you have a device which speaks the SCSI protocol. Examples of this include parallel port version of the IOMEGA ZIP drive, USB storage devices, ...

pdw_hu · 04-20-2007, 06:46 AM

You need:
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD
CONFIG_SCSI
CONFIG_USB_STORAGE
and the
CONFIG_USB_ARCH_HAS_OHCI
CONFIG_USB_ARCH_HAS_EHCI
CONFIG_USB
for generic usb support.

lali.p · 04-20-2007, 07:11 AM

thank you all i recompiled the kernel with support for scsi disk (which i had disabled earlier) and it started working.

Thank you all
cheers