From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2004 04:53:39 +0000 Subject: Re: how to use udev Message-Id: <20040103045339.GB10702@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <3FF61CFA.2080501@mail.ru> In-Reply-To: <3FF61CFA.2080501@mail.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 01:38:02AM +0000, Roman Duka wrote: > could somebody explain to me please how to use this udev thing > i've compiled and installed udev-012 and hotplug-2003_08_05 > udev documentaion says "Add and remove devices from the system and > marvel as nodes are creaed and removed in /udev/ based on the device > types" so how do I add devices? Do I have to call "mknod" or just > calling "modprobe" to load a give device module would be enough? I mean > neither seems to work, I get absolutely nothing in /dev/ or /udev/ ??? > Am I missing something here??? If you go into the test directory, after installing udev, and run the test.all script as root with the 'add' paramater: test.all add Do you see new nodes show up in /udev? If not, something is not installed properly. If there are nodes, great, it's working :) thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id78&alloc_id371&op=click _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel