hotplug

[Charles Trois]

Hello!

I have trouble with hotplug.

On my iMac (15" LCD, YDL 3.0 yum-updated, kernel 2.4.23-pre5-ben0), I
have an Alcatel Speedtouch USB modem, and there is the script
/etc/hotplug/usb/speedtch, the duty of which is to load the firmware and
launch the modem at startup.

But it does not work. The script itself is perfectly good and does the
job when run by hand. So the problem is on the hotplug side.

Reading the explanations at linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net, I learned
that there should be a hotplug system service at
/etc/rc.d/init.d/hotplug, and, looking at that place, I did not find it:
the hotplug install had failed to create it.

On the assumption that the present version (hotplug-2002_04_01-13) is
defective, I replaced it by a more recent one (2003_08_05-1). Now the
service is in place, with the necessary links, but the speedtch script still
does not get activated.

In a further effort, I activated DEBUG in
/etc/hotplug.d/default/default.hotplug, and got these lines in Boot Log:

Dec 29 18:35:40 sirrah hotplug: ** can't synthesize pci hotplug events
Dec 29 18:36:01 sirrah rc: Starting hotplug:  succeeded

and in System Log there is this:

Dec 29 18:35:40 sirrah hotplug: ** can't synthesize pci hotplug events
Dec 29 18:35:50 sirrah usb.agent[924]: ... no modules for USB product
0/0/0 
Dec 29 18:35:54 sirrah modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
mousedev 
Dec 29 18:36:01 sirrah usb.agent[990]: ... no modules for USB
product 0/0/0 
Dec 29 18:36:01 sirrah rc: Starting hotplug:  succeeded

I am at a loss and do not see what is going wrong; could it be that the
new version of hotplug is too recent to work with a 2.4 kernel?

I shall be grateful for all suggestions.

Charles