Dag-nabbit! =8] I knew I forgot to mention something. I'm already
using that (hotplug-2001_02_28). I'll drop a line to this hotplug-devel
list...
Thanks,
pete
On Mon, 05 Mar 2001, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 10:21:33PM -0500, Pete Toscano wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a bit of an annoying problem (beyond those my wife would mention
> > =)... When my system is up and running and I turn on my USB printer
> > (Epson Stylus Photo 870), everything works just fine. If my printer is
> > already on when I turn on my computer, though, the printer module is not
> > loaded and I need to either power cycle my printer or manually load
> > printer.o.
> >
> > This is with the 2.4.2 kernel, modutils 2.4.3, usbutils-0.7 (patched)
> > and pciutils 2.1.8 (patched).
>
> Try using the linux-hotplug package to provide this functionality:
> http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net/
>
> On startup the printer should be seen, and the driver loaded. If not,
> let people on linux-hotplug-devel know about it.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> greg k-h
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