Vittorio De Martino wrote: > I have a USB Epson scanner (supported under Red Hat 7.0) and I've just got > the CDs of Debian 2.2r2 that I want to install. > My question is as simple as that: > needing the scanner, what "flavor" of kernel (as I read in the installation > instruction) should I install in order to have USB devices supported by > default? > Vanilla is that the right flavor ? > If not ,what should I do? > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2.2r2 includes kernel version 2.2.18pre21, which supports USB. However, as USB support is not compiled into the stock kernel, you'll have to recompile the kernel to include it.