Comment 2 for bug 1476

Yes - still a problem.

The summary is that Hoary only works with 100% manual intervention.

I have a 2nd box that I've been testing Breezy Badger (5.10) and things are improved. Installing the "rio500" package (version 0.8.1-6) works great, the /dev/usb/rio500 gets created and can be used (e.g. via /usr/bin/rio_stat) without the need to modprobe, and create the device by hand. BUT on a reboot the device disappears (just like Hoary), the good news is that running "/usr/bin/rio_stat" in automatic mode does work (unlike Hoary) but I have to do this on every reboot. I've tried this with both the default "stock" 386 kernel and the 686 image.

You can test this without the need for a rio500 device, just install the package "rio500" and after install you should find /dev/usb/rio500 exists, if you reboot /dev/usb/rio500 will be missing again. There doesn't appear to be any "hotplug" detection (and I don't think there should be). Once the rio500 setup has been run, I would assume the device would always get created after a reboot BUT this is out of my area of expertise so I'm willing to accept user error if there is something else I should do.

Thanks for checking back on this issue and not forgetting about it I know you are busy.

Chris