Re: udev and irda-usb trouble

[Chris Horn <chris@beefstew.net>]

On Tuesday 21 December 2004 18:50, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 16:17 -0500, Chris Horn wrote:
> > Generally I am quite happy with udev and USB in Linux.  One thing, 
> > though,
> > really bothers me.  I haven't been able to write a udev rule to pick up 
> > my
> > irda-usb based IrDA dongle.
> > 
> > I can talk to it just fine if I manually create an irda0 node in /dev 
> > with
> > mknod, but I don't want to keep doing that (udev keeps deleting my 
> > node).
> > Irattach connects just fine with 'irattach irda0 none -s'** without
> > the /dev/irda0 node, but my application (jpilot) obviously needs a file 
> > to
> > talk through.
> > 
> > Problems:
> > 1. I can't seem to get any info with udevinfo on any irda or ircomm 
> > node.
> > 2. Even if I create a /dev/irda0 node, unload all the modules and then 
> > have
> > usb.agent detect the device plugin event and start up all the modules, 
> > udev
> > will not make any nodes for me.  I even tried rebooting, even though I 
> > know
> > that shouldn't be necessary.
> > 3. udev works fine for my other devices.
> > 
> > The latest rule I've been trying is:
> > BUS="usb", KERNEL="irda[0-9]", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="%k"
> 
> Hey, don't use the same value for NAME _and_ SYMLINK. :)
> 
> Kay

Thanks for the tip - I should've realized that was silly.  I've tried it with 
other text there (and just re-tried it), though, and it still doesn't work.

I just tried this:
BUS="usb", KERNEL="irda[0-9]", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="IRdongle"


Chris.


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