On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 10:26:27AM -0500, Carl Karsten wrote: > I am wondering why I see a difference between 2 similar setups: > ubuntu 2.6.39-3-generic > EC card (many firewire cards) > > I have 2 laptops. 2.6.39-3-generic on both. > > HP EliteBook 8530w (KS051UA#ABA) > HP Pavilion dv6700 Notebook PC (KC300UA#ABA) > > On the EliteBook, hotplug works: lspci entries come and go, modules > un/load, udev reports add/remove. good. > > On the Pavilion, if I load acpiphp (via /etc/modules), hotplug works. > If I don't load any additional modules hotplug does not work: insert > card - nothing in syslog, lspci, udev. If a card is in the slot when > the kernel loads, it shows in syslog, lscpi and the drivers get > loaded. If I pull it out, nothing changes: still listed in lspci, > modules still loaded, dev nodes still around. Try pciehp instead of acpiphp, that's usually used for "newer" systems. Let us know if that works or not. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html