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From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Subject: forcing a consistent serial port # in /dev/
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Is there a way to force a device to always come up with a certain serial
port # ? I have for example a usb 3g modem that sometimes comes up at
cuaU1.[0-4] and sometimes cuaU0.[0-4] after bootup.  Is there a way to
force devd to tell it to use cuaU9.[0-4] or something like that ?

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