Has anyone dumped udev for devfs?

[Kevin Fries]

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Paul Howarth wrote:
| On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 20:24 -0700, Kevin Fries wrote:
|
|>Any ETA on when udev is going to be ready for prime time?  And, any
|>clue why Fedora insists on relying on a program that does not f*(&%ing
|>work!!!!
|>
|>I am trying to get a Microtek X12 USL scanner attached, and udev fails
|>to mount it, every time.  Has anyone tried uninstalling udev and
|>reinstalling devfs to stop all these damn usb failures?
|>
|>If so, any hints on how not to make your system unstable?
|
|
| I had to search around a bit before I could get my old HP ScanJet 3c
| SCSI scanner going but it's sorted now. I just had to add the following
| udev rule, which I put in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-custom.rules
|
| BUS="scsi", SYSFS{vendor}="HP*", SYSFS{model}="C2520A*",
| SYMLINK="scanner%n"
|
| This creates a link /dev/scanner0 to the SCSI generic device assigned to
| the scanner, and changes ownership of the device to whoever's logged in
| on the console.
|
| The page that clued me in was:
| http://www.reactivated.net/udevrules.php
|
| Paul.

With this scanner, I am not even getting this far.  udev fails to create
the device.  I get two error messages, one stating something about
"control timeout on ep0in", and the other I don't have in front of me
right now.

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Kevin Fries
Network Administrator
Hydrologic Consultants, Inc of Colorado
(303) 969-8033    FAX: (303) 969-8357
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