USB2.0 ICSI Card reader Manual
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4. Installation Under Linux
This document was modified from
"http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/book1.html" which was written by Brad Hards.
System Requirement:
kernel versions 2.2.7 and later contain the USB code.
Install Card Reader step by step:
1. Backup Kernel
#cd /usr/src
#cp linux-2.4 linux-2.4.bak
#cp /boot/vmlinuz vmlinuz.bak
2. configure USB into kernel. Use of "make menuconfig" is recommended.
Under "USB support", you need to select "Support for USB". You also need to
select either UHCI (Intel PIIX4, VIA, ...) support, UHCI Alternate Driver (JE)
support or OHCI-HCD (Compaq, iMacs, OPTi, SiS, ALi, ...) support. Which one you
select is dependent on what kind of motherboard or adapter you have.
select "USB Mass Storage support"
select "Preliminary USB Device Filesystem"
select "SCSI support"
select "SCSI disk support"
select "/proc support"
1. make dep (advanced user)
4. Append one line into /etc/modules.conf, then reboot Linux
options scsi_mod max_scsi_luns=8
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. Rebuild the kernel and the modules (if you configured to build as modules),
and install the new kernel and the new modules. Reboot the system.
If you are using modules, you need to load the following modules:
a. usbcore.o
b. usb-uhci.o, uhci.o or usb-ohci.o
c. usb-storage.o
