udev

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Sun Aug 14 13:45:20 UTC 2005


John French wrote:

> Derek Broughton gave some very useful advice to Neil Woolford about
> using udev to fix the symlink and group for his modem. Since I had been
> struggling with a similar problem, I tried putting a line in
> /etc/udev/rules.d/udev.rules, and it did just what I wanted.

LOL.  Obviously it's time I followed my own advice, and test writing udev
rules :-) 

> Now I want to do the same for my USB scanner. The system knows it is
> there, and ?scanimage -L? returns ?device 'epson:libusb:005:005' is a
> Epson GT-X700 flatbed scanner?, but I can't identify the entry in /dev
> which relates to it. Please can someone tell me what it is likely to be?

Uh-oh.

>From the "writing_udev_rules" doc: "The usb scanner driver has recently been
removed from the kernel and re-implemented in userspace (as part of the
SANE package). You do not (and can not) write rules for this hardware as it
does not rely on specific kernel drivers."

Sorry.
-- 
derek





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