On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 22:50:07 +1300 Mark Carey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > I have just helped a mate get his Windows XP partition and nVidia Nforce > chipset working on a ShuttleX PC. The machine dual boots Windows XP and > RH9.0. > > 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. > 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) Its kinda weird having to download a driver before you can get the network going. how exactly is this to be acheived.. Oh wait - perhaps theres a winmodem? or maybe nvidia force you to have a floppy drive on the box (yuck, how last millenium) >This after using a USB pendrive to get gcc and kernel-source > installed. > > The point of this post (I know you were wondering!) is that while > fiddling with the USB pendrive, my first time with such a device under > Linux, I noticed some interesting stuff in /var/log/messages that I had > also seen at home when playing with ppp is some droppings from a thing > called hotplug. > > Oct 20 14:02:00 santacruz /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: Setup usb-storage for > USB product ea0/2168/200 www.qbik.ch is a great starting point for usb devices. according to that site vendor/product id 0EA0:2168 is a wristwatch device, but that may just mean the same chipset in your device. http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdev.php?id=2129 http://www.laks.at/ (how cool!) > > 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? I have visited the hotplug site > (inux-hotplug.sf.net) and read all local documentation but alas they do > not appear to suggest there is a way of achieving this .... as other people have said it should work automagically if hotplug is set up right by the distro. sorry, thats not a lot of help... > > Mark > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
