Re: Problem with udev & Vodafone UMTS card

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 05:17:53PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 16:58 +0100, Marc Packenius wrote:
> > Hi Kay,
> > 
> > Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> writes:
> > 
> > > On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 15:15 +0100, Marc Packenius wrote:
> > >> after installing udev on a Debian/sid-powered Toshiba Satellite
> > >> notebook, the Vodafone UMTS card stopped working.
> > >> 
> > >> This pc-card includes a USB controller and feeds three serial character
> > >> devices when installed properly. They're called "/dev/ttyUSB[0-2]".
> > >> 
> > >> When using udev, those device nodes are not created properly, instead
> > >> the dev directory shows files with the filename "/dev/<NULL>[0-2]", e.g. 
> > >> "/dev/<NULL>0".
> > 
> > >> => /var/log/daemon.log <=
> > >> Jan 24 14:59:35 mudshark udev[3157]: creating device node '/dev/<NULL>0'
> > >> Jan 24 14:59:35 mudshark udev[3169]: creating device node '/dev/<NULL>1'
> > >> Jan 24 14:59:35 mudshark udev[3179]: creating device node '/dev/<NULL>2'
> > 
> > > How does:
> > >   ls -l /sys/class/tty/ttyUSB*
> > 
> > > look like, or any other suspicious entry in this directory?
> > 
> > mudshark:~# ls -l /sys/class/tty/ttyUSB*
> > ls: /sys/class/tty/ttyUSB*: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
> > mudshark:~# ls -l /sys/class/tty/*NULL*
> 
> That's a kernel bug and not a udev issue. You may try to work around
> this by placing:
>   KERNEL="<NULL>*", NAME="ttyUSB%n"
> 
> in a /etc/udev/rules.d/ file.
> 
> Greg, any idea what is causing this in the serial driver?

No I do not.  What kernel version is this?  What driver is this (the
usb-serial generic driver, or some other usb-serial driver?)

thanks,

greg k-h


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