On Thursday, 14. April 2005 09:33, Bjarne Wichmann Petersen wrote:

> 1) The vendor, product and release entries I'm not sure if they are needed.
> I just stumbled over them here:
> <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-April/044826.htm
>l>
>
> I couldn't figure out how to retrieve those information from the Zire
> myself.

usbdevs -v probably.

> 3) Why do FreeBSD have both devfs.conf devfs.rules and usbd.conf? It seems
> to me there is some heavy overlap in functionality between them?

They do different things. Lines in devfs.conf are parsed and applied 
by /etc/rc.d/devfs at bootup, rules from devfs.rules are loaded via the devfs 
utility into devfs themselves and usbd only deals with USB and thus can't be 
used for non-USB devices.

> 4) I used 3-4 hours on this due to lack of documentation. So, how do are go
> about making an entry to the FAQ at freebsd.kde.org?

Well, quite frankly, it's not a FAQ.

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