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Re: UDEV Question



Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com> writes:

> Anyone here have a Microtek SCSI scanner?
>
> In the past I've used scsiadd -s which would add the new device, this
> still works with udev but the symbolic link/permissions/etc are never
> created correctly.
>
> When I run the udev scan utility, my model does not have a specific
> name, just "Scanner" - but I have tried out / followed all the howtos
> and cannot get it to work 'automatically' - instead I have to ln -s
> /dev/<device> /dev/scanner && chmod 666 /dev/device manually.
>
> Anyone else have issues getting udev to support their scanner when they 
> 'hot-add' it with scsiadd -s?

I don't have a scanner, but if you give me the output of the following
command: 

udevinfo -a -p `udevinfo -q path -n /dev/<device>`

I might be able to help you write the rule to create the link to the
node 

-- 
John L. Fjellstad
web: http://www.fjellstad.org/          Quis custodiet ipsos custodes



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