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[D. Stimits]

Elizabeth O. Coolbaugh wrote:

> Thanks, Michael.  Jon gave me a hint and I got the USB ports up with:
>
> 	modprobe usb-uhci
>
> and I found the proper device names:
>
>         /dev/usb/ttyUSB0
> 	/dev/usb/ttyUSB1
>
> Unfortunately, KRUD 8.0 doesn't seem to recognize my Palm.
>
> Dec 16 14:21:49 jelly /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: ... no modules for USB 
> product 0/0/0
> 	


I'm no expert at USB, but perhaps this will help. USB is a hot-plug 
layer on top of the kernel. Having ttyUSB0 and 1 means hot-plug is 
working. But you still need a specification of what to do when a 
particular hardware type is plugged in or removed. My only experience 
with this so far has been with mice on a laptop (not my laptop). My 
mouse was not listed or recognized, but I found another mouse that was 
basically the same hardware, and edited its plugin config...the USB 
mouse then worked great.

If you go to /etc/hotplug/, you will find a set of files. As a 
subdirectory to hotplug, you will find "usb" (PCI devices and USB are 
actually quite similar in logic...most PCI though would be destroyed by 
inserting them or removing them while power is up). In that usb 
subdirectory you might find a file to look at to figure out how to set 
up your USB device. Depending on what you have installed, you might have 
a lot of USB hotplug devices defined, or just 1 or none. It shares a lot 
of similarity with init scripts.

D. Stimits, stimits AT comcast DOT net