Why do I have to run modprobe usbhid to connect to my APC UPS?

[ANT...@zimage.com]

Hello. I had to reboot recently after 142 days of uptime nonstop. After the reboots, I noticed my
Debian's apcupsd wasn't connecting and reading my APC UPS via a USB cable. You can see the whole
thread at http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=10464156&forum_id=26961 ...

Others and I found out that we needed to type as root: modprobe usbhid

It worked, but why do I have to do this? Adam thinks that it should run by itself with udev which is
installed. Is there a configuration file or something to run this? Or maybe something broke? I know I
upgrade daily and saw udev replace hotplug during those 142 days of uptime.

Thank you in advance. :)
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[ANT...@zimage.com]

No one knows? :(

[Mumia W.]

ANT...@zimage.com wrote:
> In alt.os.linux.debian ANT...@zimage.com wrote:
>> [...]

>> Others and I found out that we needed to type as root: modprobe usbhid
>>
>> It worked, but why do I have to do this?

>> [...]
>
> No one knows? :(
>

No, no one knows. Just add "usbhid" to the bottom of /etc/modules to fix
it permanently.

Do a "man 5 modules" too.