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Title: Info on using the SL-5500 w/ 2.6.1
Post by: nasteratu on January 25, 2004, 03:59:43 pm

Hello,
       I am trying to get usb networking w/ my 5500 under the 2.6.1 kernel and I was wondering if there was any good information on how to do this. I have found out a good amount of information on this, if anyone has any good information that would be great. I am also running OZ 3.2 if that helps. Thanks

Title: Info on using the SL-5500 w/ 2.6.1
Post by: Pyrates on January 25, 2004, 05:14:42 pm

Hey, I\'m just having the same kernel, the same Z and the same OZ  If you need help... for docs, just see http://docs.zaurus.com/ (http://docs.zaurus.com/), in case you didn\'t find it ...

Cheers
Philipp

Title: Info on using the SL-5500 w/ 2.6.1
Post by: Anonymous on January 25, 2004, 11:13:51 pm

Thank you very much, I figured out the problems I was having. Most were usb screw ups. Though there is really little along the lines of documentation for using 2.6.
So if you are like me and using a kernel ]= 2.6, in the kernerl config under device drivers, usb support, enable (I did as a module) Multi-Pourpose USB networking framework (CONFIG_USB_USBNET).  This will create the module usbnet which is a replacement for the rather craptastic \'usbdnet\' in previous kernels. That is about the only real difference between using an older kernel and a more recent. Hopefully that might help other people.