Hi Karl, I will need to read a man page for hotplug. I really don't
understand your example.
On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Karl Heinz Kremer wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 01:55:41PM -0700, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> [ ... ]
> > Hi Karl, I find to get scanner into the kernel I must have something in
> > /etc/rc.d/rc.local file, and that something can include the vendor and
> > product. If you can tell me how to load the scanner module alone some
> > other way I'm listening. I could read
> > /usr/src/linux/documentation/modules again but I'm tired of all that
> > today...:-)
>
> Put a line like this into the file /etc/hotplug/usb.distmap. The second
> numeric
> argument is the vendor ID, the third is the product ID. The whole thing is
> one line. It's probably easier to just copy one line that starts with the
> driver name "scanner" and duplicate it, and then modify the vendor and
> product IDs.
> scanner 0x0003 0x04b8 0x010f 0x0000 0x0000 0x00
> 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
> 0x00000000
>
> Red Hat 8.0 does have hotplug support, as does SuSE 8.x. I would assume
> that pretty much all modern Linux distributions also come with hotplug
> enabled.
>
> Karl Heinz
>
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