On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 16:00 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote: > On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 08:53 -0700, Craig White wrote: > > On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 15:36 +0100, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: > > > On 5 Feb 2005, at 06:02, Kevin Fries wrote: > > > > > > > This morning I had to re-install Windows because udev failed to build > > > > the /dev link for a USB based scanner. This has set my transition to > > > > a Linux network back 2 years. And I get accused of whinnying. > > > > > > Please, read the following article: > > > > > > http://www.reactivated.net/udevrules.php > > ---- > > nice link > > But it doesn't address Kevin's problem, which is a USB timeout, not a > failure to find a node in /dev. > > See: > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-February/msg01289.html > > If the USB driver in the kernel is having problems with the device, it > can't identify the device and create a node for it. I doubt that the > situation would be any better with a static /dev entry for it either. ---- ahh - that guy and that problem. His problems (via personal 'un-invited' email to me) seem to be more like... - his desire to consider Fedora as 'stable' when it's stated goals are to be 'testing' distribution - his mission to offer Fedora as a drop-in, hassle free replacement for Windows and of course, as you mention, hardware that doesn't play nicely. Craig
