On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:17:11 +0200
Merciadri Luca <luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be> wrote:

> Celejar wrote:
> > Not sure what kind of peripherals you have in mind, but they generally
> > won't get ttyUSBn addresses, unless they're USB-serial converters,
> > which contain chips meant to provide a serial / TTY interface to the
> > system.
> >   

> And which addresses would they get, if they were not using /dev/ttyUSBx?

The driver will determine what sort of interface is presented.  If no
driver picks up the device, no interface will be created.  If it's a
disk, you'll get /dev/sdx; a webcam, perhaps /dev/video; a WLAN dongle,
perhaps wlan0 (all assuming that your kernel has a driver that
recognizes the device).

Celejar
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