On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 03:04:36PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Greg KH <gre...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > > Why not use the links in /dev/serial/ which are there for this specific > > reason? > > > > # ls -l /dev/serial > ls: cannot access /dev/serial: No such file or directory
Do you have your serial device plugged in? If not, it will not show up. > Something in a newer version of udev perhaps? It went into udev version 136, way back in 2008, so odds are, you have it on your system... > Or would my defining my > own symlinks end up overriding some rule elsewhere. I just added > these lines to /etc/udev/rules.d: > SUBSYSTEM=="tty", DRIVERS=="pl2303", KERNELS=="4-1:1.0", > KERNEL=="ttyUSB*", SYMLINK="mythser/rca1" > SUBSYSTEM=="tty", DRIVERS=="pl2303", KERNELS=="3-3:1.0", > KERNEL=="ttyUSB*", SYMLINK="mythser/rca2" You do know that USB buses can be dynamically renumbered depending on the phase of the moon, right? Be careful here... greg k-h