Ok, funny thing, when I configure a computer for my use (work computer previously
used by someone else) I always reformat, and go minimalist on what I need to make
the system run smoothly, well as it turns out, at that time, I didn't have any USB devices,
so guess what, I had turned USB support off in the BIOS. After several thousand
resounding "Doh!" in a row, it will now modprobe uhci successfully.

And I get heart-warming little messages like "detected new device" and such on
my USB connection. Yay. It says the device was not claimed by any driver or some such
thing, but it's a start. Alright, my new problem is, wlanctl-ng fails with the message:

wlan: FAILED: /sbin/wlanctl-ng wl0 dot11req_start ssid= bsstype=independent beaconperiod=100 dtimperiod=3 cfpollable=false cfpollreq=false cfpperiod=3 cfpmaxduration=100 probedelay=100 dschannel=6 basicrate1=2 basicrate2=4 operationalrate1=2 operationalrate2=4 operationalrate3=11 operationalrate4=22

wlan: wlanctl-ng: No such device
wlan: Failed to enable the device, exitcode= 1 .
wlan: grep: /proc/net/p80211/wlan0/wlandev: No such file or directory

Ok, the device is there for sure in /proc/bus/usb, so it's definetly seeing it now, but I'm not
sure what "p80211" has to do with anything, any ideas?

On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 14:15, Tom Prado wrote:
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Adam Voigt wrote:

> Alright, well, this:
>
> cat /proc/pci | grep "usb"
>
> Returns bupkiss, but should the usb be mentioned
> in /proc/pci? It's on the motherboard so shouldn't it
> not be in there anyway, or is "pci" misleading in that
> it means all devices?
>

try cat /proc/pci | grep "USB" instead. The USB Controller(s) should be
in there since they are PCI devices. You need to have a USB controller
driver loaded to be able to use any USB device. Even though you can load
the prism2_usb driver, I'm suspecting it won't work since there is no
host controller driver driving it. What errors do you get when you tried
to modprobe usb-uhci, uhci, and usb-ohci?

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