USB

This article describes the setup of USB (Universal Serial Bus) controllers.

Hardware detection
To choose the right driver, first detect the used USB controllers. The lspci utility works nicely for this task:

Kernel Configuration
See USB/Guide.

Portage Configuration
To check if the  USE flag is activated, run:

Desktop related profiles have it activated by default. See

Should you however need to activate it, this can be done either in or in.

After setting this be sure to update the system with the  option so the changes take effect:

Emerge
Install the package, if it is not already installed by adding the   USE flag and re-running emerged with  :