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From: Michael Mauch <michael.mauch@gmx.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Stable identification of identical USB hardware
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 19:00:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070618170027.GA11233@elmicha> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <157636.91774.qm@web51404.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

Joerg Pommnitz wrote:

> I want to be able to distinguish between two (or more) mostly
> identical USB serial devices. The devices in question are UMTS modems.
> AFAIK they are identical except for the SIM card and the point of
> attachment. Externally the cards are CardBus devices with an integrated
> USB host adapter. The actual UMTS device is (internally) connected to
> the USB host adapter.

> If I have to cardbus sockets, how do I get from what I know ("the card
> is in socket 0") to "I have to talk to ttyUSB2 to talk to the card"? I
> suspect I have to follow the thread from /sys/bus/pci to
> /sys/bus/usb/devices, but how exactly?

You should be able to distinguish the devices with udev. Have a look at
http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html 

If that doesn't help, I would like to propose that you ask again in
the de.comp.os.unix.linux.hardware or comp.os.linux.hardware newsgroups.

Regards...
		Michael


  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-18 17:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-18 15:35 Stable identification of identical USB hardware Joerg Pommnitz
2007-06-18 17:00 ` Michael Mauch [this message]
2007-06-18 17:13   ` Lee Revell
2007-06-18 20:33 ` [Linux-usb-users] " Greg KH
2007-06-19  9:09   ` Kay Sievers

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