On 17 Jul 2003 16:08:17 +0200 Wouter Vanwalleghem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<snip> > Which reminds me: > few weeks ago I was trying to get gentoo (tried both vanilla-kernel & > gentoo-kernel) to recognize my firewire DVD/CDRW attached to a Dell > laptop. > > Only thing that did the trick was to put sbp2 in the > /etc/modules.autoload and then put into /etc/conf.d/local.start: > rmmod sbp2; > sleep 3; > modprobe sbp2; > sleep 3; > echo "scsi add-single-device 0 0 0 0" > /proc/scsi/scsi; > modprobe sr_mod; > > Because when the module was inserted by the bootscripts (because of > its presence in /etc/modules.autoload), it always resulted in sth. > along the lines of "sbp2: Error logging into SBP2-device - login > failed". > > Anybody know of a better trick? I use the hotplug service which seems to handle my firewire drive DVD/CDRW drive correctly. # emerge hotplug # rc-update add hotplug default -- Mark Gordon Paid to be a Geek & a Senior Software Developer Although my email address says spamtrap, it is real and I read it. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
