Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 16:50:41 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Brian McGroarty <brian@mcgroarty.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: USB KVM breaks under 2.6.0
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On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 12:40:32AM -0600, Brian McGroarty wrote:
> I have a Belkin Omniview SE 4, a four port KVM, with keyboard and
> mouse provided to a Linux box via USB.
> 
> Under 2.4.23, the device works well. The keyboard and mouse are
> detected.
> 
> Under 2.6.0 (Debian build), the keyboard is not recognized.
> 
> I have verified that hid and usbkbd are loaded, and if I plug a USB
> keyboard directly into the machine, the keyboard is recognized
> properly.

NEVER use the usbkbd driver, unless you _really_ know what you are
doing.  Please read the config help entry for that item.

> /proc/bus/usb is empty -- with 2.4, I would have gone there to verify
> that the device was seen. Is there any data I can pull from 2.6 which
> might help diagnose this?

Did you mount usbfs there?

thanks,

greg k-h
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