On Sunday 13 February 2005 22:41, David Fletcher wrote: > Why does the scanner keep appearing as different names in /dev/? If it had > the same name each time, could the name not simply be edited > into /etc/sane.d/epson.conf or /etc/sane.d/epkowa.conf? This is udev doing it's 'thang'. > Any chance of making it work like this in future updates? probably the best way to deal with this is to write a custom UDEV rule for your scanner so that it always turns up as /dev/scanner0 (or even /dev/kermit if that takes your fancy) every time the kernel detects it. http://www.reactivated.net/udevrules.php will give you a runthrough for this including examples for printers and cameras. Scanners can be dealt with the same way if you need them to be. > Thanks for taking time to read all this. no problem. :-) HTH Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCE, RHCX, RTFM, ASAP Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.
