On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 07:32:37 -0500 Mike Rambo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> thoughtfully uttered these words to ponder:
> AFAICS devfs seems to be the culprit behind most USB problems. > Mandrake had even recommended disabling it when they released the > first kernel update after 8.1 was released. devfs is also why you > don't see all the/dev links as you used to. The concept behind devfs > says that those links are only created on the fly as they're needed, > if you disable devfs they'll all come back and behave in the old > manner. We have three 8.1 boxes here. We've only gotten one of them to > sync via USB with our Handsprings using devfs - and even that one will > only sync through jpilot (can't get evolution to work). The other two > boxes we've had to disable devfs (I think you specify devfs = nomount > or some such in lilo.conf) and use the hard coded links to get the > Handsprings to sync via USB. > > I know I've read numerous messages where folks have had no problem > with devfs, even some in this thread. But it does appear problematic > to me. YMMV. excellent Mike! that is the information I was looking for. I guess, judging from a few of the other posts, I could/should have asked the question a little differently. -- daRcmaTTeR Registered Linux User 182496 Mandrake 8.1 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 3:32pm up 3:49, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.00
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