I manage a number of rack mounted servers in distributed locations. Most of the time I access them via SSH but when I lose connectivity, I scream loudly and go onsite, locally connecting using USB-serial cables (two back-to-back) from my laptop. Each server has an agetty running on /dev/ttyUSB0. All systems run Fedora Core 6 through FC8.
Local connectivity via the mct_u232 driver works great when the USB cables are plugged in. When not plugged in (which is hopefully 100% of the time because I generally use SSH), I see the following in the server logs: Dec 13 11:56:24 twinkie init: Id "S0" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes repeated every ~7min. Is there a way to statically create /dev/ttyUSB0 and bind the usb-serial/mct_u232 drivers to it for a particular USB port? I found some info about man:udev and static devices using /lib/udev/devices but it doesn't seem to work because (I suspect) the correct driver is not being loaded. I could also be that the USB gadget needs to be present. This is not a big issue (I have lived with it for six months) but it is annoying. I have looked at the udev docs and it SEEMS like this should be doable in the rules but it SEEMS like USB devices are designed to be more fluid. Dave Turvene - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
