Heya. I'm using a 2.4.0-pre kernel, with the kmod module loader active, and an entry in root's crontab to periodically call `rmmod -a`, as per the kernel docs. I'm also using a program called usbmgr (http://www.wonder.ne.jp/~shuu/usbmgr), which runs as a daemon, detecting when USB devices are connected/disconnected (keying off /proc/usb/devices), and automagically loads/unloads the required modules for each one. Nifty. The problem is that I have a USB Zip drive which is basically permanently connected. usbmgr finds it at boot, and loads the usb-storage module for it. Of course, unless a Zip disk is actually mounted, the next time cron calls `rmmod -a`, the usb-storage module is removed, and I need to add it by hand when I want to use the drive. Yucky. I _think_ it's happening because usbmgr is labeling the module as autoclean-able, but I want the module to hang around until it's been explicitly rmmod-ed (if that makes sense :-). I didn't see anything helpful in the manpages for modprobe or insmod, and the usbmgr docs aren't of much help either. Does anybody here have any suggestions? Cheers, Peter -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
