Hi Steve,
> I've had a few battles with this dongle.
> Start a
> tail -f /var/log/messages in a window, and plug in the dongle.
> If you get a message such as:
> /var/log/messages 476 41:Jun 23 17:35:32 rhat kernel: usb.c: USB device
> 2 (vend/prod 0xa5c/0x2033) is not claimed by any active driver.
> Then you have a problem with the hotplug scripts.
>
> When a usb device is plugged in, the hotplug (/etc/hotplug/usb.agent) is
> run. /etc/hotplub/usb.agent and /etc/hotplug/hotplug.functions have a
> switch to turn on debugging at the top of the script. The scripts first
> look for a kernel module that will support the device, and then start
> looking at text files called usermaps for the correct device id.
>
> If you have /etc/hotplug/usb/bluefw installed then bluefw is installed
> but the scripts aren't working. On Redhat 7.3 I had a problem with not
> having usbdevfs enabled (and therefore no /proc/bus/usb support). On
> Redhat 9.0 I had a problem in that /etc/hotplug/usb/bluefw.usermap
> wasn't being looked at and I had to do a:
> cat /etc/hotplug/usb/bluefw.usermap >> /etc/hotplug/usb.usermap
take a look at the mailing list archives and you will find a posting
from Max, where he noticed that the hotplug package from RedHat 9 is
outdated.
Regards
Marcel
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