[Gllug] Firewire or USB

Richard Turner richard at zygous.co.uk
Sun Apr 9 13:10:37 UTC 2006


Mike Brodbelt wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 21:20 +0100, Richard Turner wrote:
> 
>> Really I'd prefer not to have to keep disconnecting the USB cable when I
>> boot - how can I configure udev and/or modprobe or whatever I need to
>> use the Firewire interface and also not try to use the USB one in case
>> another USB mass-storage device is plugged-in?
> 
> Write a custom udev rule that matches the USB interface for the device,
> and ignores it. That way, when the kernel sees the Firewire interface it
> should do something with it, but with the USB i/f, it'll ignore it.

Oh, yeah; why didn't I think of that?! Thanks!

Richard.

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