[mythtv-users] Assign driver to USB device

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Fri May 1 22:36:55 UTC 2009


> I have a ATI Remote Wonder, that I used with the lirc_atiusb driver on
> Fedora 6.
> Now I have upgraded to Fedora 10 and first I renamed the ati_remote.ko
> module and tried to install the lirc driver.
> Then I found out that the lirc driver for the ATI is no longer in Fedora 10,
> so I had to go back to the ati_remote.ko driver.
> I renamed the module back to ati_remote.ko, rebooted, but the driver does
> not start.
> Before I got the following in /var/log/messages:
>
> Apr 26 20:44:24 localhost kernel: input: X10 Wireless Technology Inc USB
> Receiver as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.0/usb2/2-2/input/in
> Apr 26 20:44:24 localhost kernel: ati_remote: Weird data, len=1 ff 00 00 00
> 00 00 ...
> Apr 26 20:44:24 localhost kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver
> ati_remote
> Apr 26 20:44:24 localhost kernel: ati_remote: Registered USB driver ATI/X10
> RF USB Remote Control v. 2.2.1
>
> Now I get the following:
>
> May  2 00:17:13 localhost kernel: usb 2-2: Manufacturer: X10 Wireless
> Technology Inc
> May  2 00:17:13 localhost kernel: usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using
> uhci_hcd and address 2
> May  2 00:17:13 localhost kernel: usb usb4: New USB device found,
> idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0001
> May  2 00:17:13 localhost kernel: usb usb4: New USB device strings: Mfr=3,
> Product=2, SerialNumber=1
>
> How do I assign the USB device to activate the ati_remote.ko driver again?
> Does the kernel have some kind of table somewhere?
>

I am not sure about Fedora, however my 5 years of gentoo experience
tells me you can not take a driver from 1 kernel and expect it to work
on a different kernel version. Are you using the same kernel version
in Fedora10 as you were in Fedora6?

John


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