[ale] /dev/ttyUSB0 question

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Wednesday 21 July 2004 01:37 pm, james at sumners.ath.cx wrote:
> I realized last night that all there is to using udevfs is installing
> udev and hotplug. So, all I did was `apt-get install udev` (already had
> hotplug installed) and rebooted, so that the devfs would be set up
> cleanly. Voila! My system now has a much cleaner /dev directory.

That worked!  Except that I did 'urpmi udev' instead of apt-get.

> http://at.rpmfind.net/opsys/linux/RPM/mandrake/10.0/i586/udev-013-4mdk.i586
>.html

So do you use apt on Mandrake?  I haven't found a mandrake apt server.  Urpmi 
is similar, but it'd be nice to have apt working, too.

Thanks for the pointer.

Michael

>
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 01:19:37PM -0400, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> > On Tuesday 20 July 2004 10:30 pm, Geoffrey wrote:
> > > James Sumners wrote:
> > > >>From my understanding (I have not messed with it yet) udevfs provides
> > > >> an easy
> > > >
> > > > way to do this. Read http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7316
> > > > for a good overview and basic principles.
> > >
> > > I believe hotplug can be configured to deal with this as well.
> >
> > I didn't see how to do that with hotplug but without devfs.  I'd love to
> > find out as I have that same problem.
> >
> > I was disappointed to find that Mandrake 10, though it uses a 2.6 kernel,
> > does not have devfs.  Does anyone know of a distibution that does have
> > devfs?
> >
> > Michael
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