Peter Hardy wrote: >On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 21:27, Andy Eager wrote: > >>My question is: Is there any way of telling which /dev file is assigned >>to the new device? I had a poke around /proc for some kind of clue but >>couldn't see anything. >> > >I don't think there's an easy way to tell, at any given point in time, >which USB device is which. About the best you can do is say that >devices are enumerated in the order they're plugged in, and know in what >order they're plugged in. Of course, for devices that were there at >boot, it isn't quite that simple.. > Thats a shame. The same problem happens when scanner.o is loaded: The only way to find out which device to use is to run sane-find-scanner.
Thanks for the confirmation regarding /dev entries. Regards, Andy E. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
