On Monday 09 July 2007, you wrote:

John Andersen wrote:

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On Monday 09 July 2007, Dave Barton wrote:

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-------- Original Message -------- From: Hans Linux <hans.linux@igi-alliance.com> Date: Mon 09 Jul 2007 18:45:02 EST

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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.

Johm, which kernel you on coz it doesn't work here on 2.6.18.8-0.3 it doesn't work?

Uname -ar reports: Linux gotroot 2.6.18.8-0.2-default #1 SMP Fri Mar 23 19:38:30 UTC 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I also have this line in my /etc/fstab to make sure usb stuff gets loaded at boot time: usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw,devgid=100,devmode=0640,busgid=100,busmode=0550,listgid=100,listmode=0440 0 0 This kernel was produced by Andres Jaeger of SuSE while fixing a boot loader problem and he threw in the usbfs restoration as a side incentive to get people to test the boot loader. This is the directory at suse where this was installed from: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/aj/10.2-bootloader-test Perhaps you can dredge up Andres email from the list and ask him about this. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen