Thanks. I hadn't realised that's what unbind meant :-) I thought that I'd need to rmmod/insmod something or other Sunrise varies a lot at this latitude. Tim On 27 Jan 2012, at 16:58, Alan Stern wrote: > 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