On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 11:37:20PM +0800, Barry Cugley wrote: > Hello > > My system is Debian V3 with kernel 2.4.18 on a 200Mhz Pentium. > > I have just installed a USB head card which has two connections for external > devices. I have connected a CD burner to the head card. The CD burner is an > external Iomega, Predator, CD-RW having a speed of 4*4*6 on USB 1.1. > > Debian has to be able to find the new hardware (USB head card and CD burner) > and I am not sure it has done this. > Q1. How can I find out if the hardware has been found and what do I do if it > has not been found? Debian (by default) does not autodetect anything. The hotplug package does automatically load modules for USB devices though, so start by installing it. As someone else said, lsmod will show you what's been loaded already. -rob
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