On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 21:26 +0200, Gert van den Berg wrote: > On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 21:06, doh123 <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > all the devices are in /dev in OSX as well... I've never directly tried to access anything except the optical drive, which doesn't work in Wine on OSX... (yet). You should be able to try and directly access it just like in Linux. > > > If OS X detects the device correctly enough to load a driver... (which > may / may not be visible from System profiler) > > The device names might also be different... (/dev/tty.something looks > common...) (try ls /dev/*tty* to try and find it...) > > Thing like this might be needed: http://osx-pl2303.sourceforge.net/ > Does OS X keep a static list of device files, as Linux used to do in its pre UDEV days or do device files get built on the fly as they are needed? UDEV builds device files for things we think of as static (serial & parallel ports, optical drives, etc) dynamically at boot time and effectively destroys them when its shut down. This has implications for access permissions: if you need non-standard access permissions you can't just set them once: they must either be modified as the device files are created (by changing the UDEV rules) or immediately after booting the system (by putting chmod etc. commands in /etc/rc.d/rc.local). Martin
