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On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, Steven J. Yellin wrote:
> I want a USB device to be available for mounting on a computer right
> after the device is plugged into a running system. I.e., I want USB
> hotplugging. It works on a SL3 system with the hotplug rpm installed. How do
> I make it work with SL5?
It should "just work". But we're supposed to use gnome-mount(1) now.
> Here's where I am so far: The computer is a x86_64 system running SL5.1
> with kernel version 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5. According to the kernel-doc rpm's
> /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.18/Documentation/usb/hotplug.txt, it appears
> that /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug should hold "/sbin/hotplug". But it now holds
> nothing, and there is no /sbin/hotplug. Sourceforge provides
> hotplug-base-2004_03_29-1.noarch.rpm and hotplug-2004_03_29-1.noarch.rpm, but
> they conflict for some reason with usbutils-0.71-2.1.x86_64. I didn't try
> removing usbutils or forcing installation of the pair of rpms because I'd
> rather ask for help first in order to limit the risk of causing trouble by
> ignorantly flailing around.
> Does SL5 have rpms which we're supposed to use for setting up
> hotplugging?
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>
> Steven Yellin
>
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