On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 12:45:54AM +0100, Christoph Eckert wrote: [...] > Currently, it's a sort of poker because I have two USB cards. > Each session the cards will be registrated in a different > order. [...] If I understand you correctly, then udev should be able to solve your problem. "udev allows Linux users to have a dynamic /dev directory and it provides the ability to have persistent device names." http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev.html I have not used it myself, though (I don't have that many usb devices). Burkhard