[Wine] Re: VDQ : Have I made a wine's nest? -- Update

[James E. Lang]

Duane Clark wrote at 14:04 on 10 Mar 2006:

> Beartooth wrote:
> > ...
> > Incidentally, I also get 
> > 
> > [root at localhost ~]# file /dev/ttyUSB0
> > /dev/ttyUSB0: character special (188/0)
> > [root at localhost ~]#
> > 
> > which appears quite analogous to the results for tty, tty1, etc.
> > 
<snipped>
> > 
> mknod /dev/ttyUSB0 c 188 0
> 
> > Why isn't the machine seeing it
> > own hardware, that's been there since I got it, months ago? Or seeing it
> > one way, but not another??
> > 
> 
> Well, I don't really know when/how the /dev/ttyUSB* devices would be 
> created; they are not there on my FC4 system. I notice that I do have 
> /dev/usbdev*, with the only difference being that they have a "major" 
> number of 189, instead of 188 that you listed above. Those numbers have 
> something to do with the driver used to handle the device.

FWIW: On my SuSE 9.3 system running as a user rather than root I see this:

jelly at jelly:~> file /dev/ttyUSB*
/dev/ttyUSB0: character special (188/0)
/dev/ttyUSB1: character special (188/1)
/dev/ttyUSB2: character special (188/2)
/dev/ttyUSB3: character special (188/3)

-- 
Jim