[sf-lug] USB stick help, please...

[Eric Walstad]

Hi all,

Anyone know how to get linux to recognize a USB stick without having
to unplug and replug after a reboot?

I've been tinkering with Open-WRT[0] running on an Asus WL-500G
Premium 2 router.  I have it running (actually x-wrt[1]), I've
soldered[2] in my Tweet-a-watt[3] receiver, I have my Python installed
on a USB stick and I can make it all work - yay!  Until the power goes
out, that is.  Then the router reboots and the USB stick isn't
recognized until I manually unplug it and plug it back in.  Then I can
run the boot script that mounts the USB stick.

I've read a ton of pages, tried using USB2 (ehci) and then USB1(ohci).
 Everything I've read assumes that the system recognizes the USB stick
on boot.  But mine doesn't.  Oh, when I unplug and plug in the USB
stick, it shows up as:

/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1

A search for that will show you some of the pages I've read.

I'm happy to share more details but I'm not sure which ones are relevant yet.

Thanks in advance,

Eric.
[0] http://openwrt.org/
[1] http://x-wrt.org/
[2] http://forums.adafruit.com/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=12660
[3] http://www.ladyada.net/make/tweetawatt/index.html