Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
Is there any documentation for FC5's hotplug? I need to know the
format/location of the action scripts that get run when a new
device gets plugged in.
I have a usb GPS device (it looks like a serial port) that I'd like to
have recognized and have the device permissions automatically set to
allow the user access. Doing an su to root and "chmod 666
/dev/ttyXXX" every time I plug it in is getting old.
You should look at the udev and HAL documentation. Hotplug is not
really used any more. Chances are, you can do this with a udev rule,
and have it create a /dev/gps symlink at the same time.
Mikkel
Hello Mikkel, I was trying to get a ham radio appliance to work in
FC5 and my playing around got me to UDEV and I read all the man and info
pages on udev and decided if it takes an understanding of this to use
FC5 I will go back to FC2. And that is exactly what I did.
By the way, you say hotplug is no longer used and it is a part of
EVERY thought given to UDEV and all that mysterious stuff at
/etc/security/*. This stuff really made me wonder what Linux is coming
to. I was fat dumb and happy with Red Hat 9. I should have stayed there
:-)
Karl
