Top-posting cuz your post came as an attachment??? Ya you have to emerge hotplug then rc-update add it to the default run level before building the kernel [well it doesn't matter but might as well follow the instructions]. You have to add hotplug support to your kernel configuration.
If all goes well the hotplug script will automatically load all of your devices for you at boot time. It worked for me when I last built in July. Everything such as my ethernet, sound, tv tuner, scanner, mouse, etc... was detected. Recently though I have found that the USB support is broken on my box. I'm not "nix-pro" enough to figure out why it doesn't work. For the most part hotplug is well worth it. Saves much time. Tom --- I just recently looked over the new 1.4 install instructions, very nice job by the way. I noticed that hotplug is used by default in the install now. I have never used hotplug but it seems interesting, if I understand correctly I can build my kernel as usual, enable the modules that I want/need make the kernel and set hotplug to run in the default runtime and have hotplug load all the modules that I need when I need them without me having to put them in /etc/modules.autoload (BTW when did /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-version replace /etc/modules.autoload...I just realized this today.)? I know that was a long sentence but I'm trying to understand hotplug and it sounds really interesting. If someone could correct me or clarify that what I think is true then I definitely have some kernel rebuilding in my near future. Thanks -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
