Yet another USB problem

stkaplan · 01-04-2004, 04:25 AM

I posted this at the Gentoo forums but no one had an answer there, so I'll ask here. It's probably not a Gentoo-specific error, anyway.
(I'd add a link, but I can't, having less than five posts and all. It should be easy to find there, though.)

In the installation guide, it said I might need to put

Code:

"none /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults 0 0"

in my /etc/fstab, so I did.

The first time I booted after installing and configuring everything, I got the error:

Code:

Mount point /proc/bus/usb does not exist

and my USB did not work.

I figured I didn't need to have the line there, so I commented it out. The error is gone, but my USB still does not work. This message shows up in dmesg, though:

Code:

usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs 
 usb.c: registered new driver hub

The KDE Control Center shows nothing under USB devices.

Andrew Benton · 01-04-2004, 06:55 AM

Login as root and do
mkdir /proc/bus/usb
Then it will exist so you can uncomment the line in /etc/fstab and try again.

stkaplan · 01-04-2004, 05:30 PM

Oops...I forgot to mention something...

/proc/bus/usb DOES exist.

Code:

ls -la /proc/bus/usb
total 0
dr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root            0 Jan  3 17:36 .
dr-xr-xr-x    4 root     root            0 Jan  3 17:36 ..
-r--r--r--    1 root     root            0 Jan  3 17:36 devices
-r--r--r--    1 root     root            0 Jan  3 17:36 drivers