From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Horn Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 00:05:47 +0000 Subject: Re: udev and irda-usb trouble Message-Id: <200412211905.47718.chris@beefstew.net> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org 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. ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ 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