On 5 Feb 2005, at 17:00, 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.
Yeah! With a static /dev tree, the device node would be there sitting useless, idle, waiting for the USB driver to stop timing out. It seems the root of that problem is not udev itself, but a bug in the USB kernel core.
