usb hotplug in FC5

Rickey Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Tue May 23 02:49:56 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 22:18 -0400, Valentin Kuznetsov wrote:

> Hi, since hotplug is depricated in FC5, what is general guidelines to
> use USB devices?
> I want hotplug, I don't want to write everytime a new rule
> in /etc/udev/rule.d/ (:
> I want to plug and use my USB device and I want to able to do it with
> KDE. 
> For example I wrote a new rule for my SD-card USB reader, so I was
> able to
> add new mount point in /etc/fstab, and was able to invoke mount for
> this point.
> But if I use KDE and click on icon I got the following message: 
> "Feature is only available with HAL". So, how should I enable HAL w/
> KDE?

Open your K-menu and goto administration / server settings / services
and enable haldaemon for runlevel 3 and 5.  That'll fire it up for ya.
That should solve your problem quite handily!! Ric

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