CUPS and USB

[Anton Markov]

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Martin Duclos wrote:
| Duct tape, is there anything it can't solve? However, I have to favor
| the solution about looking into hotplug and having it connect to same
| device number everytime. Actually, is there a good link to where I could
| get more info?

For information about hotplug, see
http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net

You probably don't really need to know those details unless you want to
run some script when the printer is plugged in. Your distribution should
have a package you can install to get hotplug to work. Again, you should
use a recent 2.6 kernel for udev to work properly, as well as hotplug
support in the kernel.

What you are really interested in, is "udev". It basically takes over
managing you /dev (or any other directory you choose) by creating and
deleting device nodes in response to hotplug events.

If there is a package for you distribution to install udev, you should
use that. I know the Debian package installs and sets up udev flawlessly
for me. If you can, configure udev to manage a test directory (like
/udev) to make sure it works, before using it on the real /dev
directory). Unfortunately, udev documentation is scarce.

Once you have udev working, it's a matter of adding a rule file to (on
Debian) /etc/udev/rules.d/ and specifying a naming option. Check the
udev manpage when you get there.

You can get the hotplug and udev tarballs from:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/

Be sure to read the FAQ at the end of that directory listing.

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