usb help needed

[Net Llama!]

Perhaps your distro already had the hotplug & usb stuff setup upon 
install.  Mine didn't as I've been manually upgrading bits & pieces of 
Caldera since all the way back from 2.2.  So, i've had to install all 
the usb related stuff from scratch.

Keith Antoine wrote:
> On Friday 19 April 2002 12:14, you wrote:
> 
>>Greetings,
>>I've taken the plunge into the world of USB in linux, by purchasing a
>>Philips USB webcam.  The cam is definitely supported under linux, so
>>that's not my problem.  What i'm confused about is the entire process of
>>'hotplugging'.  I read the material on linux-hotplug.sf.net, and it
>>seems that i need to have some kind of hotplug init script in order to
>>run a hotplug daemon at bootup.  My problem is that i can't find where
>>to get such an init script anywhere.  Also, i'm not clear on where or
>>how i setup the hotplug binary to act as a daemon.
>>
>>thanks
> 
> 
> Nah, Mate.
> I am running usb printer and camera card all I did was recompile in the 
> kernel values.
> 


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