[KLUG Members] usb modems and hylafax

[Peter Buxton]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:13:39AM +0100, Bert was only escaped
   alone to tell thee:

> are you sure? I have my ttyACMx on major 166.  on 188 are some devices
> such as usblp0 that indeed make me think of something like usb. I
> wille try some of these devices to get the usb modem going.

Yes, I am. Major number 166 is specifically for USB modems. You mistook
an example for a rule.

> is the /dev directoty than only holding 'active' (present) devices?

Under devfs, yes.

> how do I run devfs? mount does show a usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb; how
> does it help me to overcome the "which device" question?  what is the
> name of the daemon that should be running?

Does your Linux system come with it? (No, don't ask me, I don't know.)
usbdevfs != devfs. All live devices are shown, and only live devices.
devfsd(8).

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