Hello Andrej, it works exactly as you say. The devices are created only when I try to access them, They are not there before. The reason it did not work for me before was that I tried to use those devices as a normal non-root user. When those devices are created, root is the owner and the perms are rw-------.
So I guess I will have to edit /etc/devfs.conf and add something about permissions (I think I saw some commands in man pages). Thanks, Michal Borsenkow Andrej wrote: >>I have rebooted the whole machine. >>I will try the aliases once again. >> >>Although I think the problem is, the ircomm-tty module is not loaded >> >by > >>anything (only tekram, irda, irtty are loaded by irda scripts) - and >>Irda is still working without devfs then. >> >>Could it be that the device /dev/ircomm* is created only after you try >>to access it? >> > > >Yes. That is what modules.devfsd is for. Actually, once you try to acess >single device, all of them are created (because module gets loaded). > >One possibility it may not work is our initscripts. Once more I say - >stop "restoring" /dev from /lib/dev-state as it is done now. > >-andrej >
