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Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2004 16:50:42 -0500
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At 11:58 PM -0800 2/7/04, Julian Elischer wrote:
>On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>  >
>>  I would appreciate if people would test these devices work _as
>>  previously_ with this patch in place.
>
>well that depends on your definition of "as previously"
>
>Previously, nmdm started off with 4 devices visible in /dev now I
>don't see that.. The old behaviour was intuitive... You saw a device.
>You openned it and used it, .... You could select the port to use in
>a pulldown browser. Now you have to open an invisible device you
>can't see.. doesn't seem so intuitive right now..

It seem like it would be nice to have some marker-device there,
something that one could see and select before opening it.

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