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USB_HID is not working

How do I get a usb keyboard to work? I have already selected and compiled the USB HID transport layer and I don't know what else to do.
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Compile Linux Kernel w/ Dynamically (Un)loadable usbserial Module

I've attempted to install drivers for an FPGA device, but require that I remove the usbserial module. This happens to be impossible because usbserial is a built-in module. It was suggested that I ...
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Removing builtin modules in Linux

I'm currently attempting to remove the usbserial module in order to install a new driver module. When I attempt to remove the module I get the following issue: [root@localhost xr21v141x-lnx-3.0-pak]# ...
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Prevent usbhid from claiming USB device

Directly related: Prevent claiming of novelty usb device by usbhid so I can control it with libusb? I want to access an RFID reader (works as HID device) from a program that uses libusb-0.1. In the ...
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Is it necessary to enable CONFIG_USB_OHCI_HCD , when there's only USB 2.0 ports

Is it necessary to enable CONFIG_USB_OHCI_HCD on a system that has USB 2.0 port only ? I'm not sure those devices present , e.g bluetooth , camera use that driver ? Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 ...
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What happens after an USB disk is connected to a Linux system? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What happens when a USB drive is plugged in? What happens after an USB disk is connected to a Linux system? Does the system probe devices, load driver modules, or what? ...
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Launching Gentoo from external hard drive

I have an external hard drive (Transcend TS500GSJ25M - not sure M1, M2 or M3, but guess it's M1) and I'd like to install Gentoo on it. It's pretty easy, using genkernel, though it compile a lot of ...
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Is it normal that a restart is required to mount USB after a kernel upgrade?

Sometimes I see the Linux kernel being mentioned in the list of upgrades, when running pacman -Syu (updating my packages in Arch Linux). Whenever this happens, after installation of the packages, I ...
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How does the Linux kernel decide how much bandwidth to allocate to Isochronous USB endpoints?

As far as I'm aware, USB endpoints that use isochronous transfers have a 'wMaxPacketSize' parameter associated with them that is used by the kernel to guarantee a certain amount of bandwidth for the ...
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How to assign USB driver to device

This question is two-fold: First, how do you manually detach a driver from a USB device and attach a different one? For example, I have a device that when connected automatically uses the ...
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Make kernel detect garmin device

I'm trying to connect a usb garmin forerunner device to my system, but the usb device is not detected. I have loaded the following mods: garmin_gps 11544 0 usbserial 25449 ...
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Prevent claiming of novelty usb device by usbhid so I can control it with libusb?

I have a USB rocket launcher that I wish to experiment with through libusb. However, libusb cannot claim the interface; presumably because the output of usb-devices lists 'usbhid' as the driver for ...
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How to use Linux kernel driver bind/unbind interface for USB-HID devices?

First background. I am developing a driver for Logitech game-panel devices. It's a keyboard with a screen on it. The driver is working nicely but by default the device is handled by HID. In order to ...
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Linux kernel support for USB gamepads?

I've got an old Logitech USB gamepad that worked well under both Windows and Mac OS X. That is, the gamepad was totally "plug and play" for games run by a Super Nintendo emulator (SNES9X). Does Linux ...
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`power/persist` file not found in USB device sysfs directory

The file /usr/share/doc/linux-doc/usb/persist.txt.gz mentions that the USB-persist capability can be enabled for a given USB device by writing 1 to the file persist in that device's directory in ...
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GRUB on USB Drive — adding OSes

Some Background: Coming from a largely Windows background (though I'm familiar with Ubuntu, etc.) and using a Windows 7 machine to complete this task Have gotten GRUB installed successfully to the ...
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How should I configure grub for booting linux kernel from a USB hard drive?

I have a laptop hard drive in an external enclosure which I use as a large pendrive. For an added twist, I have installed Linux on it, so I can boot any machine with my distribution of choice (e.g. ...