those logs are from root. I looked at my kernel. I have all the usb stuff compiled into the kernel. I have usbfs compiled. I'm guessing it is a problem with udev. I ran the knoppix cd last night, hotplug creates /dev/usbscanner and my native machine does not. I have hotplug, udev, and coldplug installed. right now the kernel is using udev. I can see that in /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug. I didn't bring logs with me today, I have left over hotplug config files on my thumbdrive. hotplug doesn't even do a thing with my scanner. It's like hotplug doesn't see something that is there. as for udev, I noticed last night that scanners isn't listed in the rules. So far today I haven't found anything for a need for scanner in the rules.
Well, if you can think of anything post back. Thanks again, Josh
