When you plug in or remove a device (mouse, hard drive, keyboard, etc.) the Linux kernel loads the firmware for the device the passes it off to udev. Udev decides what to do with the device next. It’s extremely powerful and previously I detailed how to give USB sound cards the same name every time.
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I use Winlink at my home, my in-laws, or the vacation house most of the time. As a result there are half-a-dozen gateways that get the most use. These can be saved as aliases in Pat-Winlink pretty quickly with a little information gathering. First, you need to know how Pat-Winlink can read your favorite station..
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ALSA is powerful. Incredibly flexible. Because of that it’s almost guaranteed to be complicated. I spend a lot of time plugging and unplugging different audio devices into my machines in different places. The way ALSA identifies sound cards (USB, built-in, HDMI, whatever) is that the first one detected becomes card0. The next is card1. The.
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