Vreme: 10/21/2011 08:07 PM, Robert Heller piše: > What subsystem replaces /sbin/hotplug in CentOS 5? The older hotplug > package is missing from CentOS 5 and /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug yields an > empty string. Since hotpluging for standard devices still seems to > work, I presume that something replaces the hotplug helper found on > CentOS 4. Can someone point me in the right place? All of my > Googleing points me back to the (obsolete?) /sbin/hotplug subsystem > (Google is just not being helpful!). I'm guessing udev and/or HAL are > involved somehow, but I am having a hard time figuring out what I need > to do. > > Specificly, I have a special USB device (a PI Engineering Rail Driver > Console device) that I have written a daemon for that I need to launch > when the device is plugged in and when the device is unplugged, the > daemon needs to be killed. For CentOS 4, I used a script fired up from > the /sbin/hotplug via /etc/hotplug/usb.usermap -- what to I use for > CentOS 5 (and eventually CentOS 6)? > > I think you are supposed to use udev and /etc/udev/rules.d/ Geting up HP Printer on CentOS 5.x when USB 2.0 does not work properly: modprobe -r uhci_hcd; modprobe -r ehci_hcd; modprobe uhci_hcd; modprobe ehci_hcd usb_printerid /dev/usb/lp0 udevd restart service haldaemon restart If firmware loading during intallation does not work, use: make install-hotplug !!! (in /etc/udev/rules.d add 11-hplj10xx.rules file ???) -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe Google is the Mother, Google is the Father, and traceroute is your trusty Spiderman... StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant