From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: raid517 Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 17:50:19 +0000 Subject: Re: UDEV and new hardware? Message-Id: <4357E6A2.1010508@ukonline.co.uk> 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 Thanks I will certainly give that a go - although in the end I just wrote a small bash script and had it create the symlink and then added this to my system startup scripts. This should hopefully survive and upgrades to Udev in the future too. (Although having the capacity to create persiant 'on the fly' symlinks in /dev (just as I used to be able to do) would still be neat too. GJ Kay Sievers wrote: >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 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- 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