On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 09:49:19AM -0600, Ben Stallings wrote: [snip] > > Then there's the other unexplained phenomenon in the Bermuda Triangle of my > /dev directory. If I want to hotsync my Handspring Visor, which uses a USB > cradle, I have to manually create /dev/ttyUSB0 and /dev/ttyUSB1 and give them > appropriate rw permissions. Then, after I use them, they disappear. > Sometimes immediately after I use them, sometimes not until I reboot, but > they're always gone by the time I reboot. What's going on there? These devices are automatically created when you press the hotsync button, you shouldn't bother creating them yourself. > > Thanks again for all your help! --Ben (Mandrake 8.1) -- Matthew S. Hallacy CACU, PWGCS, and BOFH Certified http://techmonkeys.org/~poptix GPG public key 0x01938203