Re: [sheflug] Hald/Hotplug fun..

[John M Cooper <john [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 11:36 +0000, Marc Kelly wrote:
> Hi there...
> 
> 
> I admit defeat in my attempts to figure out how things work with
> hotplug usb devices.. I am trying to add a new device, and I KNOW it
> works fine with the usb-storage drive, since if i manually load that
> driver then it finds the drive.
> 

I spent a while trying just the same thing with a webcam a while ago and
in the end I think that I gave up!! I think that I did figure out a way
to do it by adding the id to the kernel module source but in the end
there did not seam to be a simple way.


> 
> Would also be nice if it loaded usbserial (with correct ID's) so i
> could use the modem in the phone too.. which also works for manually
> loading the driver..
> 

I did not know it did that! 


> Any ideas where all these mapping files hide?

Well other than in the kernel, I think that there are some in /etc/udev/
but I never had any luck geting it to work. I am not really helping here
am I?!

> 
> The phone is a D750i, and very nice it is too... and even more when
> linux works with it..
> 

I have a k750i and it has the usbid of "0fce:d016 Sony Ericsson Mobile
Communications AB" and on both Debian and Ubuntu it Just Works (TM)! You
may want to try it on a modern distro, one of the live disks would be
good to test with. It might just be that with a kernel upgrade it would
work fine as there is no mention of the id in /etc/udev but it is
in /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.usbmap which I think is generated
from the kernel modules.

john



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