USB

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USB (Universal Serial Bus) is a computer peripheral interface standard.

The Gentoo Linux USB Guide covers setting up USB. Read it first, or read the Quick minimal setup section below. Refer to this guide for clarifications and methods not mentioned there.

[edit] Quick minimal setup

This is the minimum kernel (2.6) settings needed to get USB and some basic devices to work: mouse, keyboard, disk, cdrom and printer.

Linux Kernel Configuration: USB minimal config 
 Device Drivers  --->
   USB support  --->
     <*> Support for Host-side USB
     <*>   EHCI HCD (USB 2.0) support
     <*>   OHCI HCD support
     <*>   UHCI HCD (most Intel and VIA) support
     <*>   USB Printer support
     <*> USB Mass Storage support
     (Select all drivers under the usb storage category)
   HID Devices  --->
     <*> USB Human Interface Device (full HID) support

Scsi support is required because some USB devices are seen as scsi devices (disks and cdroms): 

     SCSI device support  --->
       <*> SCSI disk support
       <*> SCSI CDROM support
       <*> SCSI generic support

The following is needed for some USB multiple card readers: 

       [*] Probe all LUNs on each SCSI device
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