On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 02:03, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 20:22:17 +1200, Simon Kitching > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm pretty sure this is not necessary, at least for basic functionality, > > with recent systems. Maybe someone read Jon's notes and built it in ;-). > > > > I'm using a 256MByte USB memory stick fine, with a debian testing system > > running kernel-2.4, and also with a debian testing system running > > kernel-2.6. Yes, the USB drive appears as a SCSI device, but that all > > seems to work out-of-the-box for me. > > Are you using a pre-built debian kernel or a custom one? According to > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/3.0.23-2002-05-21/bf2.4/kernel-config; > the bf24 stock kernel has the relevant SCSI modules built-in. This may > be the case for > all the debian stock kernels.
I'm using the prebuilt debian kernel-image packages (2.4 and 2.6) from the standard debian mirrors. Just did "apt-get install kernel-image-xxx". And yes all the necessary SCSI stuff is just there. Running modprobe -l | grep scsi reports heaps of stuff. > > > Now I *would* like to see an icon pop up on the desktop when the USB > > device gets inserted. Maybe the hotplug stuff is related to that? I can > > live without it, though... > > Me too - or similar such things. Someone said in another thread that > `udev' works > towards these goals, but I haven't investigated it. I had a memory of seeing an article about "project utopia", maybe on lwn.net, so I did some googling and found it: <quote> Today, Project Utopia is an umbrella project including multiple other open source components such as udev, hotplug, HAL, the kernel, D-BUS, and GNOME. It's is managed using use cases, as opposed to functional and technical specifications </quote> See: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2004/view/e_sess/5195 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
