Sid Boyce wrote:
Anders Johansson wrote:
On Sunday 24 April 2005 01:49, Sid Boyce wrote:
It's missing from my 9.2 --> 9.3 upgrade together with /etc/init.d/udev, but udevd is running. can anyone confirm that this is correct as I can't find them on the DVD. The admin guide page 346 says there should be a /sbin/hotplug, I only have /sbin/hotplugeventrecorder. rebuilding from source rpm udev-053-15.2, no /sbin/hotplug and I'm unable to access any USB devices.
The hotplug scheme changed in 9.3. I haven't seen the manual so I don't know what it says, but in 9.3 hotplug events are handled by udevd by default. Check out the /etc/init.d/boot.udev script. While it's started, /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug is empty, since udevd steals and handles the events,. while if it's stopped that variable will have /sbin/udevsend
As for your problem, which kernel modules do you have loaded? Are the USB modules loaded at all? As I mentioned in another mail, I have heard rumours of upgrades causing modules not to get loaded as they should, I'd love to get that confirmed
/proc/sys/kernel/hotplug is empty lsmod shows usbcore, pl2303 and usbserial loaded, but I had to manually load ov511 ... the webcam doesn't come active and at present I can't test the usb serial port. hald and dbus daemons are running. Perhaps HAL is a last minute change to 9.3 as the admin guide doesn't mention it, it still mentions /sbin/hotplug which is not in any of the packages. /dev/.udevdb hasn't registered any USB devices. Regards Sid.
What I didn't do when 9.3 first rebooted was to do another reboot. Building a kernel.org kernel and rebooting gave the same problem, next I rebooted on the SuSE kernel and it picked up all the USB devices. Back to the kernel.org kernel which didn't have an initrd as I had reiserfs etc. compiled in and seeing something in dmesg, I did mkinitrd for the 2.6.12-rc3 kernel and that sorted the problem out. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM Mainframes and Sun Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux for all Computing Tasks