On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 11:45:52PM -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: > The code exists, although I am not sure whether it is appropriate or > not within GPL. The device node gets created if the following is > placed in /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf > > Within /etc/modprobe.conf files: > /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf:install slamr modprobe --ignore-install > ungrab-winmodem ; modprobe --ignore-install slamr; test -e > /dev/slamr0 || (/bin/mknod -m 660 /dev/slamr0 c 242 0 2>/dev/null && > chgrp uucp /dev/slamr0) > > That will create the device nodes and appropriate permissions to dialout. ---end quoted text--- That used to exist in the slmodem Debian package indeed, yet Ubuntu developers removed it. Yet this line only creates one device (which I think will be for just 1 modem), let's suppose that a machine got 2 modems, this modprobe.conf line won't create the device for the 2nd modem. I think there is a way that would create the appropriate device if a correct udev rule (and probably some supporting code in the module) is made. Yet maybe that won't work if the MODULE_LICENSE isn't GPL. Which made me make some experiment a couple of weeks ago: I changed the MODULE_LICENSE to GPL (Not Dual BSD/GPL), but GPL, and compiled slmodem, and used the slamr device, I noticed that I got extra output from udevadm when I did this, but the kernel freezed after that, so I didn't bother to try again, since that won't be legal to distribute anyways. -- أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) Digital design engineer GPG KeyID: 0x9DCA0B27 (@ subkeys.pgp.net) GPG Fingerprint: 087D 3767 8CAC 65B1 8F6C 156E D325 C3C8 9DCA 0B27
