Re: [gentoo-user] External firewire drive...

2006-05-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 16 May 2006 12:59:48 +0100, Stroller wrote: > > Udev should recognise the drive and create a device node... > > Having spent the last hour tinkering, it seems to do so only after > I've emerged & started coldplug. Is there anything else I should be > doing to get udev working, or shou

Re: [gentoo-user] External firewire drive...

2006-05-16 Thread Stroller
On 16 May 2006, at 12:30, Neil Bothwick wrote: ... I thought that under udev, the kernel was supposed to be quite clever about recognising devices. Do I need to emerge coldplug, or is there anything else I can do to help things along? If I boot from a LiveCD or Knoppix these are always very

Re: [gentoo-user] External firewire drive...

2006-05-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 16 May 2006 11:28:17 +0100, Stroller wrote: > Can anyone give me some quick pointers to mounting an external > firewire drive under Gentoo, please? Is the ohci1394 module loaded? Do you have hotplug support in your kernel? CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y > I thought that under udev, the kernel was su

[gentoo-user] External firewire drive...

2006-05-16 Thread Stroller
Hi there, Can anyone give me some quick pointers to mounting an external firewire drive under Gentoo, please? I've just installed 2006.0 on a new system, and pretty much used the exact same .config as the LiveCD's kernel when building my own (`zcat /proc/config.gz > /usr/src/linux.config`