On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 10:59:39AM +0100, Bram Van Steenlandt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been having some problems with the following:
> ex1: I have two scsi scanners and I use sane to scan all works well my 
> two scanners are /dev/pass0 and /dev/pass1 however when one of them is 
> turned of the device are renumbered (wich is a problem because then I 
> have to change the sane configuration files)
> 
> ex2: Same thing as above happens with usb printer, I work with cups and 
> printers get mixed from the moment you leave one of.
> 
> I have a support pack for cups and they tell my there is no other 
> solution then to move to linux or osx because they have device id 
> numbers (they save the number kinda like a dhcp server and fixed ip 
> adresses). Or that I have to wait untill freebsd implements this.
> 
> I am a very FreeBSD minded person (but also a newbie) and I find it very 
> hard to believe that such an advanced OS does not have some solution for 
> this.

Add devd scripts to setup/remove softlinks whenever you identify a
specific device.

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B.Walter                   BWCT                http://www.bwct.de
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