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Re: udev, scanner and memory stick



On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 13:50:13 +0100, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 02:17:59PM -0800, Ken Bloom wrote:
>> On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 03:20:07 +0100, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
>> 
>> > Installed udev and lost my mouse, stick and scanner. I found the mouse
>> > when I started looking around and placed "misc" between /dev and
>> > /psaux. But I haven't figured out yet where the stick and the scanner
>> > could possibly be. Another question: /etc/fstab doesn't seem to be of
>> > much help now. All the indicated /dev/* have disappeared. (¿?)
>> 
>> One of the nice things about udev is that you can look for the differences
>> in /dev when the device is loaded and when it is unloaded (at least for
>> usb devices), and those are the device files that relate to the device.
>> 
>> The usb devices are probably somewhere in /dev/scsi - when you find it,
>> you should create a custom rule to give the devices a descriptive name
>> somewhere.
>> 
>> I also had to manually modprobe sd_mod before my usb mass storage devices
>> (my digital camera) would show up. It seems that hotplug missed that
>> module. After I proved that worked, I put sd_mod in /etc/modules
>> 
> 
> I have it in the kernel (y, not as module). It has been all workingg
> before this. I have tried to discover what changes is /dev when I plug
> in and out the devices but I don see any changes. I am going deep into
> /dev/scsi/.. nothing

Plug it in and lsmod.

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