> Worthy of note is that the nVidia Nforce Lan stuff wouldnt go out of the
> box and we had to download and build the driver off the nVidia site. 

Well known that nvidia doesn't do any open source for anything.

> Building was the only option as nVidia does not offer a driver for the
> default Redhat Kernel (Probably due to the stock RH9.0 kernel being out
> of date)

Exclusively due to nvidia being up themselves about releasing specs so
an open source driver can be made and included with the kernel. You
have a choice between using your compiler to make some glue around
nvidia's binary only driver so it loads into your kernel, or using
something better than nvidia. Very simple.

nvidia doesn't even allow Linux vendors to ship the binary driver with
their distributions, so if you're looking for someone's fault, it would
be you with your choice of hardware rather than RH with their kernel ;)
(No I don't usually defend RH *grin*)

> And am wondering, is there anyway to use this hotplug thing to
> automatically mount the USB device when it is inserted and removed using
> this thing called hotplug?

Yes, works out of the box and very well on my distro (SuSE 8.2, about
half a year old now) and without me doing anything whatsoever. As it
works well by itself I don't really know how it works, but investigate
the scripts in the directory /etc/hotplug, something's broken there if
it doesn't just beep and work.

Volker

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