Configuring SuSE to use uhci (not usb-uhci)

Yet another "problem" migrating from RedHat8 to SUSE 9.

The Atmel USB wireles network has a nasty habit of locking up the system
when used with the usb-uhci module, but works fine with the uhci module
(this is a known conflict).

In redhat I just put the following line into modules.conf
alias usb-controller uhci
which forced the OS to load the uhci module at boot-up. This doesn't work
with SUSE which stubornly continues to load usb-uhci. After it's all
finished I can rmmod usb-uhci then modprobe uhci with no issues.

Help?

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David Haggett
Linux user since 01/01/2003
Email: david<at>haggett<dot>demon<dot>co<dot>uk

David Haggett wrote:

> Yet another "problem" migrating from RedHat8 to SUSE 9.
>
> The Atmel USB wireles network has a nasty habit of locking up the system
> when used with the usb-uhci module, but works fine with the uhci module
> (this is a known conflict).
>
> In redhat I just put the following line into modules.conf
> alias usb-controller uhci
> which forced the OS to load the uhci module at boot-up. This doesn't work
> with SUSE which stubornly continues to load usb-uhci. After it's all
> finished I can rmmod usb-uhci then modprobe uhci with no issues.
>
> Help?
>

In newer suse distribs (I think from 8.1 on) you can determine which modules
are tried in the file /etc/sysconfig/hotplug and there the line

HOTPLUG_USB_HOSTCONTROLLER_LIST="ehci-hcd ohci-hcd uhci-hcd usb-uh ...."

simply change the order of the entries. This should do the job.

Have a nice day
Rainer
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