On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 01:39:44AM +0100, Dieter Rohlfing wrote:
> That makes no difference. As I already said: hot-plugging works, the
> only problem is to activate the NIC during the boot process, if the card
> is in the slot.
* Do you have package like discover installed?
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> "COLD" PLUGGING AT BOOT TIME
>
> Initializing devices that are present at boot time is easy to handle if
> you install the "usbmodules" or "pcimodules" commands, and package most
> kernel components (such as "usbcore") as dynamically linked modules.
> (RedHat 7.1 handles this problem using "Kudzu" instead, which works more
> selectively than "pcimodules".)
Debian has discover and kudzu, AFAIK. I say discover is more popular.
> "Cold" plugging is different from hotplugging in that it happens while
> the system is still warming up ("booting"). That means module loading
> may not yet be possible when devices are first detected ... so these
...
FYI: Debian init script for hot plug has few invocation. Actual hotplug
mechanism is delayed until the one in rc2.d started.
