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.
> 

I used to have to do something similar with OpenSuse - I used the 'eject' 
command once the usb device was detected and then the system would pick up the 
modem. I added it somewhere in the usb detection routines, but can't for the 
life of me remember where. Hope that gives you a clue.

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