On 15 Jan 2007, Francisco Zabala wrote: > On 1/15/07, Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Just did a large dist-upgrade on another computer. A message scrolled > >by saying /etc/init.d/hotplug was found, please purge hotplug. Could > >this be right? The apt-cache show hotplug description says hotplug can > >now do almost everything but slice bread. > > > >Tom > > > > > >-- > >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > Seems like udev is handling everything now. Use dpkg -P hotplug to > purge, though you might get unexpected results on boot. For instance, > I had to modify my hard drives from hda --> sda because of the > change for hotplug to udev (I guess they use a different naming > scheme). >
I'm still using hotplug on my Thinkpad to make the wireless card work. In fact, I'm holding my version of hotplug because when in the past I've upgraded to the version in Unstable it has not worked. I did once fiddle with udev but retired defeated. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
