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On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 05:18:36PM +0000, Neil Williams wrote: > On Sunday 01 January 2006 4:35 pm, John Botwright wrote: > > 1) check /dev/ttyUSB0 exists > > if not, create it using; mknod /dev/ttyUSB0 c 188 0 > > Caution on that - you shouldn't have to create the node yourself - it may > being created dynamically > I agree that you shouldn't /need/ to, but it won't hurt. Try it and see. > Generally, such module shenanigans is done elsewhere in recent distributions, > the days of doing such things yourself should soon be behind us. > But it's fun! ;P Seriously though, I've had enough of trying to undo whatever Windows, OSX, RedHat and Debian tried to do for me, and redo it myself because I'm not a typical 'one-size' user. LFS was too hard, the future is plan9! > > N.B. You might get problems using either uhci or usb-uhci as the usb hub > > driver. Why oh why are there two drivers? One works for my webcam and > > the other for my flash drive, but not both! > > Why else? These are proprietary devices - why should they cooperate? > Not sure what your meaning is there - they're all GPL and I'm pretty sure none are proprietary. I just get a bit ticked off that the kernel has two usb hub drivers, because many usb device drivers have what I perceive as an 'affinity' for one or other hub driver. Is there a historical reason we have two? Cheers, John -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html