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Re: /dev/thinkpad keeps disappearing



Am Montag, 31. Januar 2005 00:07 schrieb Pollywog:

>   This is what I had tried:
>
>   #mkdir --mode=755 /dev/thinkpad
>   #mknod --mode=664 /dev/thinkpad/thinkpad c 10 170
>   #chown root:thinkpad /dev/thinkpad/thinkpad
>
> This worked but the device would disappear after a reboot.

Hello,

its probably not recommended but I solved similar problems with udev by 
adding some stuff to the non existant file /etc/udev/links.conf 

For example for support of my AVM Fritzcard via ISDN 4 Linux:

# ISDN
M isdn0         c 45 0
M isdnctrl0     c 45 64
L isdnctrl      /dev/isdnctrl0
M ippp0         c 45 128
M isdn1         c 45 1
M isdnctrl1     c 45 65
M ippp1         c 45 129
M isdn2         c 45 2
M isdnctrl2     c 45 66
M ippp2         c 45 130
M isdn3         c 45 3
M isdnctrl3     c 45 67
M ippp3         c 45 131
M isdn4         c 45 4
M isdnctrl4     c 45 68
M ippp4         c 45 132
M isdn5         c 45 5
M isdnctrl5     c 45 69
M ippp5         c 45 133
M isdn6         c 45 6
M isdnctrl6     c 45 70
M ippp6         c 45 134
M isdn7         c 45 7
M isdnctrl7     c 45 71
M ippp7         c 45 135
M isdninfo      c 45 255

> > Alternatively you can add 'thinkpad' to /etc/modules.
>
> I had not tried this, I had added nvram to that file and solved that
> problem. I will try adding thinkpad to that file also.

If that works okay. I tried that with "hisax" and it didn't work. Also 
udev didn't remember manually added device nodes. So I used the approach 
I described above and this works fairly well. At work I used this 
approach to make udev VMware aware.

Still the cleaner approach would be some nice udev rules I guess. But I 
already invested lots of time into fixing those issues with udev. So I 
will use that work-around for now.

Regards,
-- 
Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de



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