[NBLUG/talk] USB not a module any more?

[E Frank Ball III]

I have Ubuntu 9.10 on a machine and lsmod shows 

usb_storage            66304  0 
usbhid                 43968  0 

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 04:56:48PM -0700, Bob Blick wrote:
 > I have an old computer from 1999 with a 533 Celeron and i810 chipset
 > that I was going to use for some home automation but I'm having trouble
 > with USB on it. It works fine unless you plug or unplug a USB device,
 > then it freezes completely. If the USB device was plugged in before
 > boot, it works fine until you unplug it. This computer does not have USB
 > 2.0 and I have tried all the combinations of USB settings it has in the
 > BIOS. 
 > 
 > I have Xubuntu 9.10 installed. I used to have Redhat 6.2 on it and don't
 > remember it having a problem then.
 > 
 > My first thought was to check if the EHCI module was loaded, since I
 > think that's only for USB 2.0 and maybe it was interfering somehow with
 > the obsolete hardware.
 > 
 > But I don't see any USB modules loaded at all, even the slow ones.
 > 
 > Is USB no longer a module? Does this mean I have to make a kernel
 > without USB 2.0 just to test it? Or maybe there's a GRUB switch I can
 > pass it?

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   E Frank Ball                frankb at frankb.us