/dev/usb is a character device instead of a directory
Patrick Boutilier
boutilpj at ednet.ns.ca
Sun Jan 30 12:52:13 UTC 2005
Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have just upgraded an old Fedora Core 2 installation to Fedora Core 3.
> Everything seems to be working fine, except that after upgrading,
> "/dev/usb" is no longer a directory containing device files, but is now
> a normal character device file:
>
> # ls -l /dev/usb
> crw------- 1 root root 180, 0 ene 30 12:28 /dev/usb
>
> Don't know what's going on here, but this has some nasty consequences,
> like UDEV being unable to create the device file for my USB printer into
> "/dev/usb/lp0".
>
> I have searched in Google for similar reports but couldn't find anything
> related. Could anyone throw some light at this?
Not sure why /dev/usb is being created but here is a workaround:
1. Turn off printer
2. rm /dev/usb
3. mkdir /dev/usb
4. Turn on printer (/dev/usb/lp0 should be created automatically)
5. cp -a /dev/usb /etc/udev/devices/.
>
> Thanks!
>
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