From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 17:35:08 +0000 Subject: Re: UDEV and new hardware? Message-Id: <20051020173508.GA31662@vrfy.org> List-Id: References: <4356BC73.9000506@ukonline.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4356BC73.9000506@ukonline.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 09:36:51PM +0000, raid517 wrote: > Hi I installed a modem driver for the Intel Corporation 536EP Data Fax > Modem. But in order to use it I need to create a link from it (it is > called 536ep0 in /dev) to /dev/modem. I need to do this specifically so > that KPPP can see it. > > The only thing is that everything in /dev/ gets deleted and rebuilt each > time I reboot. > > I have been led to believe (rightly or wrongly) that it is udev that is > responsible for this. So the question is how can I make a symlink from > /dev/536ep0 to /dev/modem that will remain in place and will persist > even after a reboot? Try adding: KERNEL="536ep0", SYMLINK+="modem" to a rules file in: /etc/udev/rules.d/ Kay ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ 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