On 11/01/2013 16:37, Frank Griffin wrote: > On 01/11/2013 09:06 AM, Johnny A. Solbu wrote: >> That takes care of usb drives where you have NTFS and exFAT file >> system you want to access. That not what the blog posts is talking >> about. There are other types of usb devices, such as printers, >> scanners, cameras, wireless network devices and what not. ntfs-3g does >> not handle any of them, unless they also have a file system accessible >> by usb. His idea is to have some sort of notification that a new >> hardware device is plugged in, and if the device is not supported by >> the currently installed packages, figure out which package you need to >> install, and give the user a button to click that will install it. > I think that's supposed to be handled by separate device-specific apps, > probably in response to an event issued by the generic USB support when > the device is recognized. For instance, a disk is handled by automount, > printers are handled by system-config-printer or possibly CUPS, wireless > by net-applet or NM, etc.
And what about all other devices? For example, getting a UPS with a USB port working is not something a non-technical user is able to do on Mageia at present, but is trivial on Mac OS X (I haven't tried on Windows recently). The examples in the blog post were about Yubikey and Lego Mindstorms. Some time ago, on Mandriva, there was a tool to do things like this (it would put an icon on the desktop for a scanner, or webcam, if you connected one). Regards, Buchan
