[ubuntu-in] hello! new to list-- 3 questions

Shakthi Kannan shakthimaan at gmail.com
Tue Mar 17 11:47:25 GMT 2009


Hi,

--- On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Moz <listmoz at gmail.com> wrote:
| I have the following three lines in my /etc/rc.local, at the bottom of
| the file:
|
| sudo -S modprobe usbserial vendor=0x12d1 product=0x1010 <
| /path/to/filewithuserpassword
| sudo mknod /dev/ttyUSB0 c 188 0
| sudo mknod /dev/ttyUSB1 c 188 1
\--

Why? Recent distros use udev and they automatically load usbserial on
detection, and create the device files for you.

SK

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