[openbeos] Re: Drivers and you

  • From: "Jerry Ponko" <jponko@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 01:02:31 CDT (-0500)

> Has anyone out there had strange troubles with drivers not mounting?
> I had to reboot to see my USB driver show up, but Be's digit driver 
> showed up right away. 
> Then, though, I rebuilt it, renamed it and copied it into the same 
> directory (~/config/add-ons/kernel/bin) and the appropriate linking to 
./dev/misc, and it didn't show up until after a reboot. 
> 
> I would have assumed that the kernel uses node monitoring for this, 
> but it seems to work sporadically, if at all. ;-/ Rebooting always 
seems to work, though.
> 
> 
> 
I don't know about USB but you have to run rescan from a terminal to 
have it rescan the scsi and ide buses.

Jerry


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