Jessica Mayo wrote: >On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Andy Eager wrote: > >>Peter Hardy wrote: >> >>>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. >> > >Ok. I don't have usb set up anywhere to look at this, but look under >/proc/scsi/ > All that shows is what scsi devices are installed: Not the /dev entry. (In this case /dev/scd0) Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: CREATIVE Model: CD5233E Rev: 1.00 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> >and see what's there. There should be some info about what each scsi >device is. also see if there is a >/proc/usb/ >directory. I'm guessing now, though. > Once again, only shows the devices: Not the /dev entry used by the module. > >I would like to know if you find something useful. >There's lots of interesting stuff in /proc, and that's probably where >sane-find-scanner is looking. > No, I think sane-find-scanner is probing well known scanner entries for a scanner. (By actually opening the device and asking it) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
