Successfull hardware autodetection

posthuman_5

Hi,
I have been having a HECH of a headache trying to get hardware autodetection SUCCESULLY work.Well i am tried lol :cry:

So i wish to know if anybody out there has been able to get HARDWARE AUTODETECTION actually and successfully work lol.Doesnt matter if i have to use genkernel or whatever, but i need at howto to get hardware autodetection working so my kernel autoloads the necesary modules for all hardware once i plug them in.

ctford0 · Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 4:57 am Post subject:

doesnt hotplug do this?

chris

posthuman_5 · Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 6:19 am Post subject: Tried.

Well i have tried with hutplug but i connect a "stv680" cam,wich drivers of it are in the kernel and i dont see any /dev/video or /dev/v4l created nor the module loaded when doing lsmod :-S

Braetene · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 20 Jul 2004 Posts: 89

maybe you should be looking at plug n play in the kernel, seems more of a plug n play kind of thing
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posthuman_5 · Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 5:13 pm Post subject: In Kernel

I have that compiled in my kernel(2.6.7-gentoo-r11) as * not M

ctford0 · Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 5:34 pm Post subject:

how bout suport for the usb devices that you want to autoload support for? are you compiling them in or as modules?

chris

posthuman_5 · Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 5:35 pm Post subject:

as modules.

ctford0 · Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 5:54 pm Post subject:

have a look at /etc/hotplug/usb.usermap. It's setup just like /etc/hotplug/usb.distmap but it is for adding support for your own devices.

Are you using usbfs?

chris

posthuman_5 · Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 6:22 pm Post subject:

this is my /etc/hotplug/usb.usermap:

# usb module match_flags idVendor idProduct bcdDevice_lo bcdDevice_hi bDeviceClass bDeviceSubClass bDeviceProtocol bInterfaceClass bInterfaceSubClass bInterfaceProtocol driver_info

ALL that is just one line in the file.
Yes i am using usbfs

ctford0 · Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 7:04 pm Post subject:

yes, under that you need to then add a line for your device that you want hotplug to autoload for you. have a look at /etc/hotplug/usb.distmap for examples. As for all of the information that it wants you to enter I'm not sure where you would find all of it but you might be able to find it somewhere in /proc/usb. Sorry I'm not more help, but I have never done this before. Just hope that my advice is getting you closer to your goal.

chris

posthuman_5 · Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 7:05 pm Post subject:

no problem..I will test :-D