On Thursday 10 June 2004 22:15, Marco d'Itri wrote: > No, it works the other way: usbutils is needed for *2.4* kernels only, > on 2.6 kernels sysfs is used. Yes, but the hotplug script /etc/hotplug/usb.rc still requires usbutils to be present (see my prior mail to this bugnr). If it is not there you _will_ get the error message '** can't synthesize hotpug events'. So first the usb.rc script needs to be fixed... FJP