On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, Steven J. Yellin wrote:
I want a USB device to be available for mounting on a computer right
after the device is plugged into a running system. I.e., I want USB
hotplugging. It works on a SL3 system with the hotplug rpm installed. How do
I make it work with SL5?
It should "just work". But we're supposed to use gnome-mount(1) now.
Here's where I am so far: The computer is a x86_64 system running SL5.1
with kernel version 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5. According to the kernel-doc rpm's
/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.18/Documentation/usb/hotplug.txt, it appears
that /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug should hold "/sbin/hotplug". But it now holds
nothing, and there is no /sbin/hotplug. Sourceforge provides
hotplug-base-2004_03_29-1.noarch.rpm and hotplug-2004_03_29-1.noarch.rpm, but
they conflict for some reason with usbutils-0.71-2.1.x86_64. I didn't try
removing usbutils or forcing installation of the pair of rpms because I'd
rather ask for help first in order to limit the risk of causing trouble by
ignorantly flailing around.
Does SL5 have rpms which we're supposed to use for setting up
hotplugging?
Steven Yellin
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