[lug] Finding devices in /dev, gphoto2 permissions

[Zan Lynx]

On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 23:30 -0700, D. Stimits wrote:
> Zan Lynx wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 23:02 -0700, D. Stimits wrote:
> > 
> >>Stephen Queen wrote:
> >>
> >>>Is there a simple way to determine which special file in
> >>>/dev a device is associated with. For example, I know from
> >>>using lsusb the device and bus number
> > 
> > 
> > The Linux kernel 2.6 /sys directory solves this problem.  Every device
> > has a "device" file in there somewhere that tells you what major:minor
> > device numbers to look for.  Then a ls -l /dev should let you find the
> > device node.
> 
> But...how does he use information from lspci to match it to the /sys/? 
> For example, my lspci for a scsi controller, even if I could match it to 
> /dev/sd, might not offer sufficient info to mount sda1 partition. There 
> is probably some neat trick waiting to be discovered here :)

If you're running a 2.6 distro with DBus and HAL, try lshal
-- 
Zan Lynx <zlynx at acm.org>
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