Setting up hotplug for userspace device

The hotplug package is included in most current Linux distributions. However, the documentation on how to set it up for USB devices which use userspace drivers, such as many digital cameras.

These notes here are based on the current Debian distribution, it is possible that other distributions may place things in slightly different places.

Firstly ensure that you have the hotplug package installed, it's probably in your default install. To verify do either: dpkg -l hotplug (Debian) or rpm -q hotplug (Red Hat, SuSE etc.).


This page last modified Sun Aug 25 13:12:40 BST 2002 by James Tappin.