Hi I need to distinguish several, mostly identical, USB devices from each other by assigning them unique static names. I know there are primers(*) that describe the process, and I try to follow them, but either the gentoo /sys/ tree is broken in some way, or my system is broken, or the primers / howto's are incorrect...
(*) http://webpages.charter.net/decibelshelp/LinuxHelp_UDEVPrimer.html (*) http://www.reactivated.net/udevrules.php I'm really stuck with this, so by way of reference I tried another linux flavour, and there the whole /sys tree and udevinfo DO work as expected. So I need to find out what's wrong. The docs tell you to run 'udevinfo -a -p /sys/<path>'. But under gentoo, I cannot find the right path. This is what is listed under /sys/class/usb*: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Feb 3 11:46 usb drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 0 Feb 3 11:46 usb_host The usb directory is completely empty, the usb_host directory has four devices, being the hostcontrollers. But the attached devices are not listed anywhere. However, looking at another linux (Suse 10) I find three directories: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Feb 2 16:27 usb drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 0 Feb 2 16:27 usb_device drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Feb 2 16:27 usb_host And indeed, under usb_device I find all my attached devices...! Under gentoo, I don't understand what should happen, and / or why it doesn't. The kernel finds the device: Feb 3 12:26:01 [kernel] usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 6 Feb 3 12:26:02 [kernel] pl2303 2-2:1.0: PL-2303 converter detected and the device gets registered under /dev and is useable: Gentoo # ls -la /dev/tts/ crw-rw---- 1 root tty 188, 0 Feb 3 12:26 USB0 But still, no /sys/ entry to be found! Not under usb, nor anywhere else. And this is not just that special USB device. I tried connecting mice, memory sticks, cardreaders, network interfaces, even hubs... nothing. Can someone please help me ? I've been wrestling with this issue for weeks now... :-( Thanks in advance, Maarten -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
