CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_GENERiC=y

I have install Knoppix 5.0.1 on my hard drive and according to a manual for
a PCMCIA UMTS-GPRS card
([url]http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Vodafone_UMTS-GPRS_PCMCIA_Adapter[/url])
I need CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_GENERIC installed as a module.
I found in my /boot/config-2.6.17 that
CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_GENERiC=y is iinstalled directly in a kernel
and
CONFIG_USB_OHCI_HCD=m

I downloaded my kernel source (2.6.17) and start
make menuconfig
trying to change CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_GENERIC to a 'm' but that driver don't
support that option.

Obviously it is a long way to see this on my Knoppix
lsusb -v
....
idVendor 0x0af0 Option
idProduct 0x6000
bcdDevice 0.00
iManufacturer 1 Option N.V.
iProduct 2 Fusion UMTS GPRS WLAN
iSerial 4 Serial Number
...

Please help

Newbie

FreeStyler wrote:[color=blue]
> I have install Knoppix 5.0.1 on my hard drive and according to a manual for
> a PCMCIA UMTS-GPRS card
> ([url]http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Vodafone_UMTS-GPRS_PCMCIA_Adapter[/url])
> I need CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_GENERIC installed as a module.
> I found in my /boot/config-2.6.17 that
> CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_GENERiC=y is iinstalled directly in a kernel
> and
> CONFIG_USB_OHCI_HCD=m
>
> I downloaded my kernel source (2.6.17) and start
> make menuconfig
> trying to change CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_GENERIC to a 'm' but that driver don't
> support that option.[/color]

You can build "USB Serial Converter support" as a module (with[*] "USB
Generic Serial Driver") in order to get the usbserial module.

Regards...
Michael

"Michael Mauch" <michael.mauch@gmx.de> je napisao u poruci interesnoj
grupi:kf9uh4xm68.ln2@elmicha.333200002251-0001.dialin.t-online.de...[color=blue]
> FreeStyler wrote:[color=green]
> > I have install Knoppix 5.0.1 on my hard drive and according to a manual[/color][/color]
for[color=blue][color=green]
> > a PCMCIA UMTS-GPRS card
> > ([url]http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Vodafone_UMTS-GPRS_PCMCIA_Adapter[/url])
> > I need CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_GENERIC installed as a module.
> > I found in my /boot/config-2.6.17 that
> > CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_GENERiC=y is iinstalled directly in a kernel
> > and
> > CONFIG_USB_OHCI_HCD=m
> >
> > I downloaded my kernel source (2.6.17) and start
> > make menuconfig
> > trying to change CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_GENERIC to a 'm' but that driver[/color][/color]
don't[color=blue][color=green]
> > support that option.[/color]
>
> You can build "USB Serial Converter support" as a module (with[*] "USB
> Generic Serial Driver") in order to get the usbserial module.
>
> Regards...
> Michael[/color]

I was thinking that with[*] I didn't get a module. Ok. But how then is
marked by Knoppix when I found:
in my /boot/config-2.6.17 that
CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_GENERiC=y
What then "y" means?
I ask that because in a manual:
[url]http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Vodafone_UMTS-GPRS_PCMCIA_Adapter[/url]
it is wrote that
USB Serial Converter... ---> USB Generic ...
must be compiled as a module, to got:
lsusb -v
...
idVendor 0x0af0 Option
idProduct 0x6000
bcdDevice 0.00
iManufacturer 1 Option N.V.
iProduct 2 Fusion UMTS GPRS WLAN
iSerial 4 Serial Number
...I still don't got that
And I didn't shore that is on that way set on my Knoppix.

FreeStyler wrote:
[color=blue]
> I was thinking that with[*] I didn't get a module. Ok. But how then is
> marked by Knoppix when I found:
> in my /boot/config-2.6.17 that
> CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_GENERiC=y
> What then "y" means?[/color]

Yes,[*] and "y" mean that you don't get a module, normally. But with

CONFIG_USB_SERIAL=m
CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_GENERIC=y

you really get the usbserial module (I have these options and I got the
module). And yes, that is a bit confusing.
[color=blue]
> I ask that because in a manual:
> [url]http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Vodafone_UMTS-GPRS_PCMCIA_Adapter[/url]
> it is wrote that
> USB Serial Converter... ---> USB Generic ...
> must be compiled as a module, to got:[/color]

That wiki entry probably was correct for older kernels. I updated the
wiki entry.

You want to have the usbserial module, because you want to use

modprobe usbserial vendor=0x0af0 product=0x6000

..

Regards...
Michael