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Re: How to add a new USB device to usbmgr/hotplug? (fwd)




>what is the magic in adding a new USB device to the usbmgr/hotplug system
>such that it will be detected and the correct drivers loaded?  My example
>is a new USB 2.0 flash memory drive which is usbmgr/hotplug don't
>recognise, but which works just fine after loading the drivers by hand.

>I have woody with a 2.4.17 kernel.

>I added to /etc/usbmgr/usbmgr.conf this line:

># a 256MB USB 2 flash drive (Apacer) vendor 0x1005 product 0xb113 module
>scsi_mod, sd_mod, usb-storage

>but it doesn't work.  From /var/log/daemon.log after inserting the
device:

>May 15 16:07:59 lapkluth usbmgr[315]: vendor:0x1005 product:0xb113 May 15
>16:07:59 lapkluth usbmgr[315]: class:0x8 subclass:0x6 protocol:0x50 May
>15 16:07:59 lapkluth usbmgr[315]: USB device isn't matched the
>configuration

>Any hints anyone?  Cheers, Stefan

Now I have the hint myself: RTFM, even though there are no man-pages for
usbmgr a little googling does the trick.

One needs to run

$ update_usbdb -f /etc/usbmgr/usbmgr.conf

On that occasion I realised that my existing /etc/usbmgr/usbmgr.conf was
broken:

update_usbdb: Syntax error near 5817 bytes offset in configuration file
update_usbdb: "vender 0x471 product 0x302 modul"
update_usbdb: configuration error /etc/usbmgr/usbmgr.conf

After fixing these typos and restarting usbmgr my new device is
recognised, finally!  These bugs probably exist in the woody usgmgr
package, since I didn't edit this file before.

Cheers, Stefan

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