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Re: USB devices not detected unless plugged in at boot



On Mon,08.Sep.08, 14:14:44, Carl Fink wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 08:28:10PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > On Mon,08.Sep.08, 07:52:25, Carl Fink wrote:
> > > On my Lenny system, USB devices (mouse, external drive, etc.) are only
> > > detected on boot. If plugged in after boot time, or removed and replugged,
> > > they are not detected and cannot be used.
> >  
> > How are you checking if they are detected (typically one would watch 
> > syslog or dmesg)?  If the kernel doesn't recognize them udev can't do 
> > anything about it. 
> 
> Syslog.  Note that they are all detected fine if they are plugged in before
> the boot process, so clearly the kernel can recognize them.
 
But it's also the kernel who should recognize them later. Udev runs in 
user space (AFAIK). Do you have a standard kernel or self-compiled. Do 
you get *any* response in syslog? I'm not sure I can help you, but these 
are things I would look at first.

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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