Hi Thanx i just checked i have hotplug installed now iadded hotplug-utils (which i dint have) im gonna try it out note that i have a fully funktional kernal-image 2.4.18 for k7 prcompiled from the mirror wich didnt complain about those thats what surprises me. Anyhow ill try and we will see . Thanx for help Flo
On Sunday 10 March 2002 23:51, Faheem Mitha wrote: > On 10 Mar 2002, Florian Struck wrote: > > Hi i have just built my own (first ever =) ) kernel (2.4.18). > > Well after about 4 tries (changing adding supports in menuconfig) > > i got him boot and it all looks very promising until the point where it > > inits runlevel2 first there is a weird 4 line message about hotplug some > > comands not found (hotplug support is activated in kernel) but it > > continues loading untill it bails out at klogd with following msg: > > If I remember correctly (someone correct me if I am wrong) you need the > package hotplug (this contains /sbin/hotplug). See the package man page at > http://packages.debian.org/testing/admin/hotplug.html . I would also > recommend the packages hotplug-utils and usb-utils. > > Also check out http://www.linux-usb.org/FAQ.html See particularly the > section on hotplugging, http://www.linux-usb.org/FAQ.html#gs4 > > At least for me, this worked flawlessly right out of the box with > Woody/2.4.17, though it does seem to be in a very early stage of > development. I just installed the Debian packages hotplug-utils and > hotplug. Note that I'm not using devfs. > > Here is a tip. When you see a command not found, go to the packages search > page (packages.debian.org) and go to the "Search the contents of packages" > section near the bottom, and input the command you are looking for. In > this case, it would have led you straight to the package hotplug. It is > usually also simply worth trying "apt-cache search whatever", which only > searches package descriptions. In this case that would have worked too. > > Faheem.
