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Date:	Sat, 5 Jun 2004 13:55:36 PDT7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: USB setup ?

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Tom Brown wrote:

> Peter Skye wrote:
> > I have the following USB driver files:
> >
> > Directory of C:\OS2\BOOT
> > 3-22-99 6:13p 25354 0 USBAUDIO.SYS
> > 3-22-99 6:14p 17840 0 USBCOM.SYS
> > 3-22-99 6:13p 17280 0 USBD.SYS
> > 3-22-99 6:13p 12070 0 USBHID.SYS
> > 3-22-99 6:13p 12068 0 USBKBD.SYS
> > 3-22-99 6:13p 11808 0 USBMOUSE.SYS
> > 3-22-99 6:13p 22566 0 USBUHCD.SYS
> > 3-22-99 6:13p 22566 0 USBUHCD2.SYS
> >
> > None of these files are in CONFIG.SYS.
> >
> > To add a USB hard drive to the machine, what is the procedure? Do I
> > manually add the proper lines, and if so which ones?

That much I can probably tell Peter. This is not something you can simply
intuit or deduce. There is apt to be a set of individual drivers for *each*
USB port, such that it will *appear* as if your Config.Sys file has a lot of
redundancy in it, even though that isn't really the case.

> I repeat Steven's suggestion from 1/23/04:
>
> First thing you need to to is ensure you have the USB stack updated to the
> latest versions. The you need to spend time at:
>
> www.os2world.com/usb
>
> and check for tips and compatibility. Pay special attention to the tools
> section.

Well, mebbe so, but this is not trivial, this is not by any stretch simple.
USB did not work for me "out of the box" in eCS 1.1 (and I regard that as
still being THEIR shortcoming -- I mean, how you gonna seduce anyone away from
'Doze this way ?), despite the box I was trying this on being rather "plain
Vanilla," as Steven put it. And nothing I have managed to do since has
altered this situation; I still have no USB in eCS. I will follow the above
advice -- as far as it will take me -- when I have sufficient time. Right
now, there are other pressing priorities, and if I absolutely need to make use
of something USB, I can just boot W2K (far from current issue Windows, by the
way), and there is never any problem.

Jordan

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