Re: installing 'hotplug' disrupts device management
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 10:56:46AM -0800, tom arnall wrote:
>
> last night i installed 'hotplug', trying to get a usb wireless device to work.
> after, per the installer instructions, rebooting the system, a number of my
> devices were not recognized by the system, or similar.
>
> details:
>
> 'usbserial' and 'visor' not loaded at boot
>
> /dev/pilot no longer existed, i.e., 'ls /dev/pilot' got 'not found,' so i
> couldn't hot sync my pda (dealt with this by fooling around with ttyUSB0/1 as
> the device for kpilot and, of course, 'modprobe'ing usbserial and visor)
>
> the driver for my wifi card was no longer loading at boot time (but got card
> working doing 'modprobe ath-pci')
>
> possibly the interface to my PDA as modem was hit, but this could have been
> due to a coincidental expiration of my USBModem program on the PDA. i haven't
> spent any time on this one.
[snip some other things that don't show up]
> my questions:
>
> why is stuff not loading at boot time?
>
> why does the system not create /dev/pilot when i connect my pda to the pc?
>
> is it possible to see the messages given by apt-get when hotplug was
> installed?
Show us your /etc/apt/sources.list, is it up-to-date?
Confirm that you do have udev installed
Doesn't udev conflict with hotplug?
Is this etch?
Show us uname -a
Doug.
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