The kernel driver "tiglusb" ("Device Drivers ---> USB support ---> [*] Texas Instruments Graph Link USB (aka SilverLink) cable support") does not create any device nodes or they are blocked by hotplug or udev or so. Kernel is ck-sources-2.6.9-r3, using udev and hotplug. When connecting the cable to the usb port, the following lines are logged to the kernel log: Dec 7 23:23:35 wechner usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using address 3 Dec 7 23:23:35 wechner drivers/usb/misc/tiglusb.c: firmware revision 2.08 But no device nodes are created that are needed by app-sci/tilp . tilp only reports Msg: Invalid host ID. Cause: TiLP received an unexpected Machine ID, probably due to a transmission error. Even creating the nodes myself using mknod with parameters I found for that with google did not solve this. udev: 046 hotplug: 20040923 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Connect cable to usb port 2. Start tilp 3. Click "Ready?" Actual Results: Error message like above. No device nodes. Expected Results: Device nodes shall be created. # emerge info Portage 2.0.51-r7 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, 2.6.9-ck3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-ck3 i686 AMD Duron(tm) Gentoo Base System version 1.6.6 Python: dev-lang/python-2.2.3-r5,dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Jun 9 2004, 14:47:32)] distcc 2.18.2 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.2.3-r5, 2.3.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.8.5-r2, 1.7.9, 1.9.3, 1.6.3, 1.4_p6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.19, 2.4.22 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=i686 -O3 -pipe -mmmx -msse -m3dnow -mfpmath=sse -ftracer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=i686 -O3 -pipe -mmmx -msse -m3dnow -mfpmath=sse -ftracer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/ http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowex X aalib acl acpi acpi4linux alsa apache2 apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts blender-game bonobo bootsplash bzlib cdparanoia cdr clanVoice crypt cups dba dedicated dga divx4linux doc dvd encode escreen fam fbcon flac foomaticdb fortran freetype gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib java jpeg libg++ libwww mad mailwrapper mbox mikmod mmx mmx2 motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses net nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python quicktime radeon readline rtc ruby samba sdl session shared silverxp slang sockets spell spl sse ssl stencil-buffer svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff tokenizer truetype usb userlocales videos wxwindows x86 xchattext xfs xml xml2 xmms xpm xprint xsl xv zlib"
Upstream issue, the driver needs to be converted to use sysfs so that udev will create device nodes for it.
