Hotplug will do this if you have it installed correctly. It uses
/lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.usbmap to determine which modules to load.
I've no idea what an 8.2Pro is. Can you try reading the documentation at
linux-hotplug.sf.net?

On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Michael George wrote:

> I just got an NEC 1300A CD-RW/DV�RW drive in a USB enclosure.
>
> When I plug the device into a USB port and power it up, the system says:
>
> Oct 30 14:00:26 brutus kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:04.3-2.1,
> assigned
> address 3
> Oct 30 14:00:26 brutus kernel: usb.c: USB device 3 (vend/prod
> 0x402/0x5621) is
> not claimed by any active driver.
> Oct 30 14:00:26 brutus kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame#
> 278
> Oct 30 14:00:26 brutus kernel: hub.c: usb_hub_port_status (2) failed
> (err =
> -84)
>
> So it doesn't know what driver to load.  If I manually do
> modprobe usb-storage
>
> the drive is recognized and mounted right away.  But shouldn't the
> system
> (8.2Pro kernel 2.4.20) automatically know that it's a storage device?
>
> I figure there needs to be an entry in usb.distmap in /etc/hotplug, but
> I
> can't find any info about how to construct an entry for a device that's
> not
> already present in the file.
>
> Where can I find that info?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Michael
>
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