Hi, Short version - Would turning off hotplug using 'rc-update del hotplug default' cause the 3Com network driver which is built into the kernel to no longer load or configure?
Long version - I have an NForce2 machine(A7N8X Delxe) at a remote family location. We bought the machine a UPS yesterday, but for some reason I was unable to get apcupsd working on that machine at that time, so I decided to put it off until I got home today and log in and get it configured. After I got home I noticed that there were differences between what the rc-update programmed showed for the setups of the two machines, so I set about trying to understand each of these options and to make the machines similar. My local machine (not an NForce2) didn't have hotplug turned on, so I turned it off on the remote machine. (Thinking it might be causing apcupsd to not run since it's using a USB connection.) After rebooting the remote machine I lost the network connection on the remote machine. The 3Com driver is built into the kernel and has been working for the last month, so I'm pretty sure it's something I did this evening, but I don't understand why disabling hotplug would cause the network connection to go away. When someone gets to the machine tomorrow during the day I'll just have them turn hotplug back on as a test, but I'm interested in knowing why this might cause this sort of problem? (If indeed it does!) Thanks in advance, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
