Re: Problems with udev

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue May 03 2005 - 23:57:22 EST


On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 04:43:18PM +0200, Christoph Pleger wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have two problems with udev:
>
> 1. When I use /dev as the root directory for udev, udev does not create
> the device nodes for my serial interfaces (/dev/ttyS0 etc.) although the
> necessary modules for serial device support are loaded. That prevented a
> program that I use to autodetect connected mouse devices from
> autodetecting a serial mouse.
>
> 2. To solve the problem mentioned above, I now use /udev as the root
> directory for udev. When I now connect a USB stick to the computer, udev
> does not create the device nodes for the stick (/udev/uba etc.)
>
> Does anybody know how to solve these problems?

Try providing your udev and kernel version, and the distro you are using
information to the linux-hotplug-devel mailing list. That is the place
for udev questions like these.

thanks,

greg k-h
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