Hi all, Murasaki is a usefull utility, extending its 'ancestor' usbmgr that loads the required modules for a hotplug device. For instance if you have a laptop, you'll be very happy of having this tool when you (un)plug a USB mouse for instance. It's not a gadget, it's really powerfull. I would have make an ebuild for that, but unfortunately I don't have a Gentoo box running for the moment. I broke a 1.2 and I'm waiting for the 1.4 to get back to this marvellous distro :-) It runs on any 2.4.x kernel with the "HotPlug" support enabled and the desired devices support compiled as modules. Best regards.
Created attachment 3436 [details] Musaraki sources tarball Here's the Musaraki sources tarball.
How does this relate to sys-apps/hotplug? Is it different?
I used to run this on my Debian days for my laptop. I haven't given it a try since then, but yes, I think it is different. Thinking about it now, I assume hotplug/kudzu can be a good system. However providing it as an alternative wouldn't be a bad idea. Cheers.
Mandrake had a /etc/init.d/ieee1394 script that did that same. ...which was probably a duplication of the script merged with an rc script. I'm surprised that Gentoo is missing this rc script.
The hotplug package does this functionality, the musaraki package is not needed.
