Bob, Most likely you are using it for hotsyn to the PALM so I also added few tricks not related specifically to your question but that are important to hot sync with VMware. If you use the new kernel you will still need those tips to hotsync of course you will not need to enable usbfs. Using USB devices with VMWare under linux has been a pain due to the fact that VMware relies on the USB filesystem at /proc/bus/usb. SuSE 10.2 unselected the support of usbfs from the kernel so mounting by itself does not work any more. The support of usbfs is still in the kernel but you have to enable it :-( ********1. Need to enable usbfs support in the kernel********** Which has been disable because of security concerns. 1.1. basic requirements: kernel-source ncurses-devel (nedeed for make menuconfig) so just #yast -i ncurses-devel etc 1.2 Kernel and kernel-source should be the save version: rpm -qa | grep kernel 1.3 Change the kernel configuration #cd /usr/src/linux #make menuconfig In "make menuconfig" for kernel configuration GOTO: -> Device Drivers//USB support/USB device filesystem and selected it! Esc/esc until ask you to save the config. Say yes. #make modules && make modules_install reboot Bob this part can be done in many different way. You can clone the configuration file, change it and use one of the new vanilla kernels etc. Menuconfig is the one I use but other options are also available. This is simple and I tried in three machines and all are working very well. Do not do other changes in the kernel, make it simple. ********2. Change /etc/fstab:******** By Default, VMWare will NOT allow the user to attach to USB devices connected to the physical workstation when the host OS is SuSE Linux 2.1 To allow access to USB devices attached to the workstation through VMWare, you need to modify the /etc/fstab file as root. /etc/fstab Locate this line: usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0 and change it to: usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs autofs 0 0 2.2 After the machine has been rebooted, the USB Device attached, and VMWare started, select VM | Removable Devices | USB Device, and select the device that needs to be attached to the VMWare session. 2.3 When the usb device is the Palm like in my case Treo 700p sometimes you have another device loaded rmvisor just remove it #rmmod visor OR Mount the usb before starting VMware (instead of 2.1) # mount -t usbfs /dev/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb Continue as 2.2 and 2.3 ********3. Be sure the vmimage is in focus******** ********4. Hotsync******** ********5. May have to start with the phone out of the craddle******** If if does not work try to repeat the mount and rmmod command and try again.!! Ciao -=terry(Denver)=- On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 12:46 +0100, Bob Williams wrote:
On Friday 13 April 2007 15:21:00 chusty@attglobal.net wrote:
usbfs was never removed from the kernel, it was not enable, so it was very simple to turn it on.
How, please?
openSUSE 10.2 x86_64, Kernel 2.6.18.8-0.1, KDE 3.5.6 r31.4
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