how can i make my USB hotplug??

girafon · Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2002 3:55 pm Post subject: how can i make my USB hotplug??

cause i want to use an external USB hd...
thanx

kybber · Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2002 6:45 am Post subject:

emerge hotplug? http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net

girafon · Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2002 8:40 am Post subject: thanx

but when i emerge, there are several config files...
i just want to make my usb ports hotplugable.
do i need to change theses config file and how??
thanx

kybber · Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2002 9:21 am Post subject:

I'm, afraid I have only just installed hotplug myself and haven't gotten around to configuring it. But AFAIK hotplug only trigges the loading/unloading of certain necessary modules based upon what was plugged into or unplugged from the USB-ports. If you have configured your kernel correctly, any plugging/unplugging on the USB ports should show up on dmesg. Additional info can be found in syslog.

Maybe someone else can help you configure hotplug to do what you want?

kyron · Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2002 3:47 am Post subject:

!@#@$@ I am having a hell of a time trying to figure out how to grant access to normal users to the devices mounted by hotplug (can't find T.F.M.!!) Anyone know the most probably stupid little detail that I missed which makes the usb devices mounted by hotplug readable by other users than root!!??
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biroed · Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2002 5:42 pm Post subject:

I'm using the usb zip with hotplugging also, but i still have to insert the disk when i boot, otherwise there will be no sda4 and the zip is not moutable.
If i insert the disk before boot, it seems to work and can i change the disks without reboot...

fidler · Apprentice Joined: 03 Jul 2002 Posts: 162 Location: Utah

I use hotplugging.

What I did was:

emerge hotplug
rc-update add hotplug default

You will have to compile all the USB items as modules for hotplugging to work properly.

arkane · l33t Joined: 30 Apr 2002 Posts: 918 Location: Phoenix, AZ

biroed · Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2002 8:14 am Post subject:

Well i don't use them also very much, but i think it's strange that without zip you won't get a drive allocation, even when it's recognized at boot.
A floppy or ls 120 don't have those problems.

biroed · Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2002 8:18 am Post subject:

Ard Righ · Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2002 3:28 pm Post subject:

kyron · Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2002 1:31 am Post subject:

pilla · Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2002 1:34 am Post subject:

Maybe it's the case of changing the program that access it to suid root (I know it is not the best sollution, but may help. Just like xcdroast and stuff).

kyron · Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2002 4:54 pm Post subject:

shadow303 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 19 Apr 2002 Posts: 101

Sorry I don't have the link right now, but if you dig around on the homepage for gphoto, there are some docs which describe how to setup hotplug to make certain devices owned by a particular group. You then just add your users to the group. I got that working without a hitch, now if somebody would just update the gphoto ebuild, my camera would actually be usable.

kyron · Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2002 5:36 pm Post subject:

LMCBoy · Posted: Sat Oct 05, 2002 1:38 pm Post subject:

Help! I also have a powershot A40. How do you use the ebuilds on that bug report page? Am I supposed to copy them into the /usr/portage tree? I tried "emerge ./gphoto2-2.1.1.ebuild" in my local directory, but it says that the ebuild is corrupted.

Also, there's a "libexif.tar.gz" file. Where am I supposed to put that so that the libexif-0.5.6.ebuild will find it?

I am very new to portage...the manual didn't seem to cover what to do if you have to use files that aren't already in the portage tree!

Thanks,
Jason
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biroed · Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2002 6:24 pm Post subject:

rfgarcia · Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2002 8:56 pm Post subject:

Well i think is a matter of module-specific-development or somehow, cause when at boot tries to load module 'imm' it reads the zip unit, and because of Zip's hardware specs, "if no disk, no drive".

jamieo · n00b Joined: 13 Jul 2002 Posts: 38 Location: Reading, UK