[PLUG] Identifying USB Device Used by Hardware

[Andrew Grover]

On 3/13/07, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Andrew Grover wrote:
>
> > Check out this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=91948
>
>    All this does is present the Ubuntu version of su-ing to root and runing
> chmod on devices. Nothing to see there.

Not quite -- it is dynamically creating dev nodes based on your parameters.

> > Once you can identify your device,
>
>    And this is what I'm trying to do.
>
>    In the 2.4.x kernel days (and earlier), I could test connections (e.g.,
> for my PDA) by trying ttyS0-ttyS3. Same with the USB thumb: I could try
> mounting ttyUSB0-ttyUSB3 or sda/sda1/sdb/sdb1, etc. until I discovered the
> device. With the 2.6.x kernel I've no idea what devices to try. There are no
> /dev/sd* or /dev/ttyUSB*.

udev would let you have a /dev/myscanner. You wouldn't need to test
multple dev nodes.

Sorry if I misunderstood the nature of your problem. -- Andy