> <snip> > Or is there some other way I can refer to the devices in a way > independently of the order they are plugged in? > > BTW. I am not running devfs. Maybe you should. That might solve your problem easily. I don't know the status of devfs in Debian right now, but it is the one thing I want to change on my system as soon as I have the time. I ran a small distribution using devfs and it's a beauty, in my opinion, anyway, ;-) David