which kernel have USB support?

[berksoy]

Hi again,

I want to thank all for replying to my last post. I'm tryin gto install linux on my laptop. However, I ran into couple problems (as you can imagine) one of them is to get my usb mouse working.
I don't know how to get the kernel version, however, on my lilo.conf the image its looking for is /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
So i assume i have a kernel version 2.2.14

In one of the documentations i read that usb is only supprted by kernels 2.2.7 or higher. But i did not find anything concerning USB when i installed packages.

Can you tell me if i'm looking in a wrong place to find usb support.

BTW, I'm nstalled red hat linux version 6.2

Thanks in advance :)

[bdg1983]

All the 2.4 kernel series support usb.

The 2.2 series can be patched to include usb support though I believe there is a minimum 2.2 version that is required.
www.kernel.org (http://www.kernel.org) may have more on the subject.

uname -r will tell you the kernel version.

[bdg1983]

It would be easier for you to either install a newer version of Redhat such as 7.1 that includes the 2.4 kernel as default or upgrade 6.2 to the 2.4.? kernel instead of trying to patch the 2.2.14 kernel.

Just my opinion as it's entirely up to you.