udev.rules not making /dev entries

Jay Goodman fedora-list at goody.homelinux.net
Sat Jul 17 08:57:18 UTC 2004


( FC2, updates current )

Okay, I've got two USB printers which don't play well with CUPS; 
depending which I turn on/off I get the ole lp0 lp1
switch-a-roo.   So I decied to take actiaon to rid the lp0/lp1 problem 
and added the file /etc/udev/rules.d/10-udev.rules with the following lines:

BUS="usb", SYSFS{serial}="H80090312041247250", NAME="lp_cx6400" , 
SYMLINK="printers/cx6400"
BUS="usb", SYSFS{serial}="FM7CC0305061255060", NAME="lp_c42ux" , 
SYMLINK="printers/c42ux"

When I power up the Epson c42ux (or the cx6400, just using the c42ux as 
an example) I get the following log entries in /var/log/messages; 
however, I do not have a  /dev/lp_c42ux  or /dev/printers/c42ux

Jul 17 04:48:17 linbox last message repeated 4 times
Jul 17 04:48:20 linbox kernel: usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using 
address 16
Jul 17 04:48:21 linbox kernel: drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: USB 
Bidirectional printer dev 16 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x04B8 pid 0x0005
Jul 17 04:48:23 linbox udev[28929]: configured rule in 
'/etc/udev/rules.d//10-udev.rules' at line 2 applied, added symlink 
'printers/c42ux'
Jul 17 04:48:23 linbox udev[28929]: configured rule in 
'/etc/udev/rules.d//10-udev.rules' at line 2 applied, 'lp0' becomes 
'lp_c42ux'
Jul 17 04:48:23 linbox udev[28929]: creating device node '/udev/lp_c42ux'


 From everything I googled and read so far, the  /dev/ entries should be 
created automagically.   Is there something that's not obvoius that's 
different in Fedora?  Was I reading old docs for udev? Or am I just 
missing something obvious?  Any pointers would be much appreciated.

thanks,
-jay











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