Full Plug 'n Play support

jpsteinmetz · n00b Joined: 29 Jul 2004 Posts: 5

Hi, i'm new to gentoo linux. I've used other flavors including SuSE, Mandrake, FreeBSD (Darwin), Solaris and HP-UX. I'm not an expert at any of them, but I feel I am a relatively competent user. What I want to have with my new linux box is full plug 'n play style support for USB, firewire and other hotpluggable devices. So far, with hotplug, it doesn't do what i want it to, I still have to mount/unmount drives to locations and personally I find that to be a complete waste of my time. So i'm hoping theres a solution out there that can actually do what hotpluggable devices were designed for, and do all the dirty work for me. Can anyone help me set this up? Thanks.

MrApples · Guru Joined: 13 Dec 2002 Posts: 511

i would check out ivman, it handles devices rather nicely in user space rather than kernel space, so you dont get as much bloat as with supermount
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jpsteinmetz · n00b Joined: 29 Jul 2004 Posts: 5

For some reason I can't get the ebuild that comes with it to install. emerge gives me the following error:

jpsteinmetz · n00b Joined: 29 Jul 2004 Posts: 5

Oh yea... and i noticed ivman specifically only handles cdroms.... i want usb and firewire support though, how can i get that?

blaster999 · Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2004 9:17 am Post subject:

Gnome-volume-manager?

Personaly I don't know much about it (I use KDE and am happy with supermount), but as far as I've read it is a good tool. Go ot http://breakmygentoo.net/ to get the ebuilds.

The other way is to use supermount (included in ck-sources), but some kernel developers say it's too bloated and not too good (however, many people still use it).
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jpsteinmetz · n00b Joined: 29 Jul 2004 Posts: 5

I've already got supermount built into the kernel actually, but as far as i'm concerned it doesnt' work worth a damn. It'll automount CD's, but won't unmount them, and then it only supports CDs. I've got external USB hard drives that I use constantly as well as firewire devices that need the full plug 'n play capability. I'll give the other thing a try, though i was trying to stay away from gnome entirely, hehe, KDE is a better interface.

blaster999 · Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2004 3:48 pm Post subject:

Have a look here:
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/wlg/5315
I think it is what you are willing to have. Unfortunately, this is only a future plan...
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