Hi I notice that after inserting my USB GPS receiver the necessary modules are not loaded and neither are the /dev/ttyUSB* devices created (or existing).
When manually modprobing usbserial and pl2303 and 'mknod' ing the device entry in /dev, all works as expected. But how can I best automate this ? I took a peek at another distrib that does work okay with this but I'm left with some questions, like I can't find any reference to the pl2303 module in /etc/mod* The most important one is: how does one make sure the /dev/ entries survive a reboot (and/or are created when the physical USB connection is made) ? Should hot- or coldplug handle this (and if so, why doesn't it?) Other USB inserts do get handled as anticipated; for instance inserting a USB mass storage device triggers loading of sd_mod perfectly fine... The other question is about that pl2303 module, how does the kernel know it is needed ? Sorry if I sound confused: I really am confused. ;) The system is using a 2.6 kernel, and -unless I'm very mistaken- with udev. TIA Maarten -- bash-2.05b$ emerge ncy -- [email protected] mailing list
