Originally posted here by hexadecimal
i know usb-core is a module...but i dont have it..or i am unable to locate it....do you know of any well known and obscure places i should check?....also while searching on google before starting this thread i came over doezens of posts in other fourms explaining how they did not have usb-core included with fedora core 2 or 3*im using core 2*...il keep searching....il probably end up having to recompile the kernel anyway
Does Redhat/Fedora still dump the kernel config into /boot/config-kernelversion ? If so, paste the contents of the file.
Just so you know, what I was saying in my previous post is that usb-core doesn't HAVE to be a module. IIRC ANY USB stuff will fail if you don't have usb-core loaded -- whether compiled directly into the kernel or loaded as a module.

To further drive home the point, right now on my box I have an external USB HDD connected and mounted, yet NO USB stuff shows in my lsmod:
$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
lp 9188 0
parport 39744 1 lp
tuner 19480 0
msp3400 22420 0
bttv 141472 1
video_buf 20160 1 bttv
btcx_risc 4356 1 bttv
btaudio 14096 2
nvidia 3468672 20
That's because I've compiled in support for everything USB.