I've got a few bits of hardware that I'm trying to tweak to work on
slack 9.1 and hotplug seems to disagree with (it doesn't seem to like me
having more than 1 bt8x8 card in the system. Hangs on boot up.) but I
also use a usb keydrive. For the time being, I've yanked the camera card
(the second bt8x8 card) and have hotplug working, but is there a howto
or something out there on how I would use this USB device (I haven't
tried it with any others, but I assume USB in general since the device
isn't even detected until I restart hotplug) without hotplug?

Thanks.

-C


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Ciro The Spider-Man wrote:
> (the second bt8x8 card) and have hotplug working, but is there a howto
> or something out there on how I would use this USB device (I haven't

i think the linux usb guide at <http://www.linux-usb.org> should be able to
help. googling wil also help, but the basic procedure isn't very
difficult. you have to have the correct modules loaded, which include
modules for the scsi system because the usb device is treated as a scsi
device. all the needed modules should be loaded when you type as root
'modprobe usb-storage'.

then when you plug in the usb key drive, dmesg and/or /var/log/messages
should say which scsi device is assigned to it, usually /dev/sda1. with
that info, you can mount it manually. (or with automount, as i do.)

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