Ubuntu and speedtouch (udev problems?)

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 06:16:31PM -0700, Elliot F. wrote:

> I thought that udev was supposed to take a snapshot of /dev and keep
> that for next boot, though..

No, a /dev managed by udev is created dynamically at boot time and updated
as devices are added and removed from the system.

> > in Ubuntu running (install gcc first) ./speedtouchconf.sh says /dev/ppp 
> > not found, ok "mknod /dev/ppp c 180 0" then ./speedtouchconf.sh enter 
> > your informations et voila... you are online
> 
> Right, because you're creating the device that udev missed.

/dev/ppp is automatically created when the ppp modules are loaded.

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 - mdz