From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 20 09:58:56 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5530116A4CE for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2005 09:58:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from asia.telenet-ops.be (asia.telenet-ops.be [195.130.132.59]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98CA843D54 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2005 09:58:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brampie@no-wackos.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by asia.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with SMTP id 9187D224101 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2005 10:58:54 +0100 (MET) Received: from [192.168.1.137] (d51526F89.access.telenet.be [81.82.111.137]) by asia.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 791CD224060 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2005 10:58:54 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <41EF810B.7060301@no-wackos.com> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 10:59:39 +0100 From: Bram Van Steenlandt User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (X11/20041209) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:14:50 +0000 Subject: device id question (usb and scsi) X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 09:58:56 -0000 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. So if anybody has any hints or solutions please send them. btw I'm running FreeBSD5.3RELEASE/i386 regards bram