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>5. Hotplug-able</H1
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> You must be using a fairly recent v2.4 kernel for this.
You may wish to read over the whole section before proceeding.
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> Hotplug will allow you to automatically run your syncronization
software when you press your sync button. You will only be
able to configure this to sync for one Visor. If you need
to be able to sync multiple users with differen Visors, you
can't. (With different Palm's and Clie's, is a separate
question, to which I don't know the answer to).
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>5.1. Hotplug Kernel Config</H2
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> You will need to enable "Support for hot-pluggable devices"
under "General Options" in the kernel config. This is
the kernel option <EM
>CONFIG_HOTPLUG</EM
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Make sure you compile/re-install.
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>5.2. Installing Hotplug</H2
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> You need to get the hotplug scripts from the linux-hotplug
homepage: <A
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>http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net</A
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The scripts are available as a rpm package or tarball If
installing the tarball package, please read the README
file that is included on proper installation procedures.
If all you are configuring is the Visor hotplug support,
then most likely you'll just have to do this:
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> gzip -dc hotplug-2002_08_26.tar.gz | tar xvf -
cp hotplug-2002_08_26/sbin/hotplug /sbin/hotplug
cp -r hotplug-2002_08_26/etc/hotplug /etc
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>5.3. Configure the Visor Driver</H2
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> When all is said and done, an (executable) script named
<TT
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>/etc/hotplug/usb/visor</TT
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get run when you press the hotsync button.
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> #!/bin/sh
/bin/su rvbijl -c /usr/local/bin/coldsync
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> Obviously, you would want to replace the
<EM
>rvbijl39</EM
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And make that script executable.
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