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Another udev discovery
29th October 2008

After very long time I've finally found how to make my two USB keyboards and mice accessible under constant file system names. Here is the trick:

ACTION!="add|change", GOTO="keymouse_end"
SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{bInterfaceClass}=="03", ATTRS{bInterfaceProtocol}=="01", ENV{ID_CLASS}="kbd"
KERNEL=="mouse*", SYSFS{idProduct}=="0067", SYSFS{idVendor}=="0458", SYMLINK+="input/mouse-genius"
KERNEL=="event*", SYSFS{idProduct}=="0067", SYSFS{idVendor}=="0458", ENV{ID_CLASS}=="kbd", SYMLINK+="input/keyboard-genius"
KERNEL=="mouse*", SYSFS{idProduct}=="071d", SYSFS{idVendor}=="045e", SYMLINK+="input/mouse-ms"
KERNEL=="event*", SYSFS{idProduct}=="071d", SYSFS{idVendor}=="045e", ENV{ID_CLASS}=="kbd", SYMLINK+="input/keyboard-ms"
LABEL="keymouse_end"

I can boot without manual assistance now!

Tags: computers, os.

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