On Fri, 27 Jan 2012, Tim Coote wrote: > One quick question, then. Even tho' the inverter does work, when left > plugged in, it's much better if I plug it in after it's fully powered > up. Is there an easy way to get cron or something else to stop the > usb stack each day until I know that the sun's been up for a while, > and then turn it on so that as far as the inverter's concerned, it's > just been plugged in? Yes, all you have to do is unbind and rebind uhci-hcd from the appropriate controller, as we discussed earlier: http://marc.info/?l=linux-usb&m=132415797822981&w=2 Creating crontab entries to this would be very easy -- provided you know when the Sun will be up (the times of sunrise and sunset vary throughout the year). Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html