Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1580 mails)

[Verner Kjærsgaard <vk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mandag 09 juli 2007 12:11 skrev John Andersen:
> On Monday 09 July 2007, Dave Barton wrote:
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > From: Hans Linux <hans.linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Mon 09 Jul 2007 18:45:02 EST
> >
> > > why i can't get my USB interface detected by guest OS on my VMware? If
> > > i plug my flash disk to my system, only my host (SUSE) can detect it,
> > > but not my guest OS.
> > >
> > > I try to enable it from menu VM -> Removable Devices -> USB devices,
> > > but it shows nothing. I do have USB device on the setting (USB device
> > > present)
> >
> > More version info would be helpful, but before starting VMWare open a su
> > terminal and type:
> >
> > mount -t usbfs /dev/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb
> >
> > If this works, you can recompile your kernel to restore the usb
> > functionality used by VMWare. that SuSE removed. Search the list
> > archives for more details.
>
> Actually the later kernels have this restored already.
> And I can attest that it works.
>
> Just update to the latest kernel.
>
>
>
> --
> _____________________________________
> John Andersen

Hi list and John...

- I've got the exact same problem as reported here. 
- I'm on what I believe is the standard SuSE10.2 kernel: 2.6.18.2-34-default

- update the kernel...? You mean go into YaST and it should be fixed?


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