Minor hot-plug (?) glitch with 6.10 (and 6.06.1)

[Peter N. Spotts]

On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 09:57 -0500, Daniel T. Chen wrote:
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> Peter N. Spotts wrote:
> > reboot or start from a cold shutdown, the computer dosen't see my
> > outboard USB drive or USB printer -- until I unplug the GE USB router
> > from the back of the laptop, then plug it back in. Once I do that, the
> > hotplug function picks these peripherals up, and I'm in business. Is
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> FWIW, 6.10 does not use hotplug. More than likely you're missing a
> /dev/bus/usb entry in /etc/fstab:
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> none            /dev/bus/usb   usbfs   defaults        0       0
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Thanks for that. I added that to my fstab file, but I still have to pull
the plug and replug it to get it to see the USB hub and the stuff linked
to it when the computer first starts up.

Best,

Pete
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