Re: Usb Modeswitch.

Olaf Westrik wrote:

> On 2011-09-07 01:38, David W Studeman wrote:
>> I noticed that when I plug a Cellular USB device into my 3/4G Router
>> running 1.9.19, my logs show that the cdrom portion of udev beat it to to
>> punch so it gives that as the reason it did not use the modeswitch rules.
>>
>> Do we really need udev cdrom support on a running IPCop system? I can't
>> think of any reason why a usb cdrom would need to be auto mounted in
>> /mnt/usb. There are rare instances where people have copied something
>> from a cdrom to a running IPCop but they generally had a build in ide
>> cdrom on the device of their choosing to run IPCop on.
> 
> Installation from USB cdrom is not that uncommon, and since we now use
> fairly identical initramfs for installation and running IPCop, that's
> probably the cause for auto mounting.  (Basically udev running, finding
> something because usb, sr_mod etc are loaded ...).
> 
> 
> Olaf

Yes, pulling the cd udev files out did not make any difference. I guess I 
will continue to do it manually and have the command in rc.event.local like 
I have been.

-- 
Dave
http://www.raqcop.com


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