usb support in kernel 2.4.28

[Klaus-Peter Schrage]

Man-wai Chang wrote:
> Net Llama! wrote:
> 
>> Its in the IDE section, if i remmeber correctly.  Quite honestly, i 
>> think your problem may be outside of the kernel at this point.  Do you 
>> have hotplugd running to detect USB events?
> 
> 
> hotplugd? My server doesn't have it. Is it part of kernel or an 
> independent daemon?

On this rather long winding thread, did you mention your type of distro? 
If it stems from this century, it should know about hotplug. See for 
more information:
http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net/