[TriLUG] hot plug question

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Mon, 26 Dec 2005, Ralph Blach wrote:

> I have USB printer off of the USB port.  Every time the boots, a new copy of 
> the printer is made and put in the /etc/printcap.

this is the nature of hotplug.

> Is there any way to stop hotplug to stop scanning for printers, where are 
> permermanemt?

you need to be in a recent (2.6.13 I think) kernel and use 
udev. (Hotplug is now deprecated, so you have to go to udev 
for new setups whether you want to or now). Unfortunately 
udev is not well documented, particularly anything following 
dropping of hotplug. There are some webpages which will give 
you the general idea. Since USB uses scsi transport you 
start by plugging in your printer, running `systool -vb scsi 
` and looking at the strings, which you copy into your 
/etc/udev/rules.d/udev.rules file


Joe

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