On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 10:56:46AM -0800, tom arnall wrote: > > last night i installed 'hotplug', trying to get a usb wireless device to > work. > after, per the installer instructions, rebooting the system, a number of my > devices were not recognized by the system, or similar. > > details: > > 'usbserial' and 'visor' not loaded at boot > > /dev/pilot no longer existed, i.e., 'ls /dev/pilot' got 'not found,' so > i > couldn't hot sync my pda (dealt with this by fooling around with ttyUSB0/1 as > the device for kpilot and, of course, 'modprobe'ing usbserial and visor) > > the driver for my wifi card was no longer loading at boot time (but got > card > working doing 'modprobe ath-pci') > > possibly the interface to my PDA as modem was hit, but this could have > been > due to a coincidental expiration of my USBModem program on the PDA. i haven't > spent any time on this one.
[snip some other things that don't show up] > my questions: > > why is stuff not loading at boot time? > > why does the system not create /dev/pilot when i connect my pda to the > pc? > > is it possible to see the messages given by apt-get when hotplug was > installed? Show us your /etc/apt/sources.list, is it up-to-date? Confirm that you do have udev installed Doesn't udev conflict with hotplug? Is this etch? Show us uname -a Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
