On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 09:51:57AM +1000, glenn wrote: > On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 06:04, Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 10:16:00PM +1000, glenn wrote: > > > I'd like to attach my zaurus to my debian box from its usb cradle. The > > > problem I'm having is that when I plug the Z in, or modprobe usbnet, the > > > machine grinds to virtual halt for aprox 2 minutes while it registers, > > > unregisters and reregisters the device - at least thats how I > > > interperret it - this is a snippet from syslog: > > > (...) > > Which kernel version? > > And isn't the correct module for the zaurus called usbdnet ? > > ^ > I'm using 2.6.7-1-686 on the debian box - all the config described above > is for the debian box, and usbnet is afaict the appropriate module for > talking the zaurus. The zaurus is running openzaurus.
Yeah, sorry, there semms to be some confusion about it. I got it working a long time ago with 2.4.18 kernel and usbdnet, but now usbnet is supposed to be better. See http://www.linux-usb.org/usbnet/ . > > On the zaurus side of things, Im not sure which module it is - but it > _seems_ ok. AFAIK there is no configuration necessary on the zaurus side. > If I exclude hotplug from the debian side of things, then I > can make a usb ethernet connection fine, but debian seems to drop the > connection after any thing from 5sec to 5min. I only assume debian does > the droping as usb0 ceases to exist on the debian box, but stays up on > the zaurus. You don't perhaps have a cronjob running that unloads the module? Regards -- Joachim Fahnenmüller # Hi! I'm a .signature virus. Copy me into # your ~/.signature to help me spread! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
