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Redeeman
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 Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2004 12:19 am Post subject: Personalizing your system with udev |
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Hey, not many knows it, but udev can actually be used to personalize your system, which is quite cool.
in this guide i assume you have a working system, using udev for device management.
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are you ever tired of having 2 usb harddrives/usbsticks and stuff, and you cant decide which one gets which device in /dev? and that you cant write a proper fstab?
i was too, then i discovered udevs extremely cool functionality.
we begin
plugin your device #1.
now browse in /sys, you must find your device in the sysfs tree. my device is a usb floppy, which gets recognized as a usb mass storage device, which is fine, i found it in:
| Quote: | | /sys/bus/usb/devices/1-1 |
go find the dir for your device too (if you cant find it, read next thing)
now we will gather information about our device!
| Code: | root@redeeman: /sys/bus/usb/devices/1-1# ls
1-1:1.0 bDeviceProtocol bNumConfigurations bmAttributes idProduct maxchild speed
bConfigurationValue bDeviceSubClass bNumInterfaces detach_state idVendor power version
bDeviceClass bMaxPower bcdDevice devnum manufacturer product
root@redeeman: /sys/bus/usb/devices/1-1# cat manufacturer
SMSC
root@redeeman: /sys/bus/usb/devices/1-1# cat version
1.10
root@redeeman: /sys/bus/usb/devices/1-1# cat devnum
2
root@redeeman: /sys/bus/usb/devices/1-1# cat idProduct
0fdc
root@redeeman: /sys/bus/usb/devices/1-1# cat idVendor
0424
root@redeeman: /sys/bus/usb/devices/1-1# |
okay, now we know which manufactorer, version, devnum, idProduct, and idVendor the device is. thats all good, cause we are gonna use that, but first, we must decide which thing we want to recognize our device with.
i choose SMSC. the manufactorer.
Adding the required udev rules
the udev rules are located in /etc/udev/rules.d/, and as the default filename, 50-udev.rules (you can either create a new file, with a name that begins with a smaller number, to make it be read first, or edit the current, i edit the current)
okay find, you have opened the file, and then you go down to the USB section, and then we add our device, mine looks like:
| Code: | | BUS="usb", SYSFS{manufacturer}="SMSC", KERNEL="sd?", NAME="usb/usbfloppy", SYMLINK="usbfloppy" |
here we can clearly see, that the sysfsnode manufacturer, which i choose, is SMSC, which is what we in the rule above, recognizes the device after, then we place the device inside usb/usbfloppy, for good orders sake, and symlinks to usbfloppy in the root of /dev.
IF i for example, had chosen to use the devices sysfs node, 'version', the rule would have looked like this:
| Code: | | BUS="usb", SYSFS{version}=" 1.10", KERNEL="sd?", NAME="usb/usbfloppy", SYMLINK="usbfloppy" |
you can do like that with all devices. i did this with my usb stick too. here is my rule:
| Code: | | BUS="usb", SYSFS{manufacturer}="Stormblue Co., Ltd.", KERNEL="sd?1", NAME="usb/usbstick", SYMLINK="usbstick" |
now you are actually done, and you have a MUCH nicer system, if you use more than 1 usb mass storage devices, this could be used with cameras too etc.
now you could create a fstab entry for the usbfloppy, and usbstick, mine looks like:
| Code: | /dev/usbstick /mnt/usbstick vfat noauto,noatime,uid=redeeman,gid=vfat,rw,umask=003,dmask=003,fmask=003,user 0 0
/dev/usbfloppy /mnt/floppy vfat noauto,noatime,uid=redeeman,gid=vfat,rw,umask=003,dmask=003,fmask=003,user 0 0 |
[b]Make changes take affect[b]
you could just reboot, which is the simplest way, but if you dont like the idea of that (i did not) then pull out the devices, and run the following command:
now plugin your devices (and pull them out) some times, and enjoy seeing it really working, (and rocking!) |
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dsd
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| Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2004 8:35 am Post subject: |
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i've written a detailed doc on this document here. its also included in the udev distribution under docs/writing_udev_rules
in particular, a couple of suggestions:
udevinfo is much more convenient than spending hours trawling through /sys
always create your own rules file, dont edit the default, this will simplify things when you upgrade and the 50-udev.rules file has changed
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eikketk
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| Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2004 9:06 am Post subject: |
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DONT distingate (sp?) USB devices on their GUID. Some devices have non-unique GUIDs (some printers), some have no GUID, and some have a changing GUID (some USB sticks send a GUID dependant on their place in the USB chain  )
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Redeeman
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| Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2004 10:21 am Post subject: |
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| its very different what devices has.. i noticed that while plugging mine in.. however i think if manufacturer or product is there.. they are a good choice |
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grimm26
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| Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 10:10 pm Post subject: mark |
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just marking
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AlterEgo
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| Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 8:43 am Post subject: Re: mark |
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| grimm26 wrote: | | just marking |
Please use some other bookmarking mechanism. Thanks! |
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Redeeman
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| Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 10:57 am Post subject: |
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| lol |
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hackerError
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| Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 4:30 am Post subject: Re: mark |
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| AlterEgo wrote: | | grimm26 wrote: | | just marking |
Please use some other bookmarking mechanism. Thanks! |
is that your other bookmarking mechanism?
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