Shouyldn't be necessary...you should just be able to modprobe or insmod the new driver modules once they're in place. On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, shane c branch wrote: > Can anyone tell me if the installation of a usb driver on RH9 requires > that the machine be rebooted to load the driver? > > For example, if one wanted to use a USB keyboard which has 'hotkeys' > that allow one touch access to programs (open office, internet browswer, > etc) would it not be possible to code the driver as a daemon that can be > stopped and started at the console, and set to run at boot time with > chkconfig, all while *not* requiring a reboot after installation? > > -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 To be notified of updates to the web site, visit http://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update, or send a message to: site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a message of: subscribe -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list