John, many thanks for your reply. On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 09:31 +0100, John D Lamb wrote:

Dave Barton wrote:

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Is it possible to configure usb hotplug to ignore an individual device?

I need to access a specific usb device from W2K as a guest in VMWare WS5, but 9.3 holds the device and I don't know how to release it. Why the device is grabbed in the first place I don't know, because there are and never will be (unless I write them) any Linux drivers for this device.

I have Googled, checked the VMWare KB and RTFM's, but I can't find anything that gives me anything to get started with.

Have a look at chapter 18 of the 9.3 manual (put hotplug in the SuSE help system).

I have reread Ch18 until I have gone cross-eyed X-(. Maybe I am too stupid to understand (very possible), but I can't see anything there that gives me a reasonable pointer towards what I am trying to achieve.

I would try to find the hotplug script in /etc/hotplug/usb and comment out everything in it. Hopefully that will be enough to make 9.3 ignore the device.

# ls -l /etc/hotplug/usb total 161 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 496 2005-05-25 23:22 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 384 2005-06-02 10:02 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 583 2005-03-20 07:59 alsasound -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24443 2005-03-20 07:59 alsasound.usermap -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 382 2005-03-20 07:32 desktopdev -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 708 2005-03-22 22:27 gphoto-desktopdev -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1372 2003-01-20 12:27 ISDN -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3384 2004-09-28 00:43 ISDN.usermap -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 493 2005-03-24 02:23 kino-jogshuttle -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 140 2005-03-23 05:38 openct -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 948 2005-03-23 07:22 tascam_fpga -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1119 2005-03-23 07:22 tascam_fw -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 414 2005-03-23 07:22 tascam_fw.usermap -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 87546 2005-03-22 22:27 usbcam.usermap -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 714 2005-05-14 04:03 usbcore -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 457 2005-03-24 02:23 usb.usermap Which one? But thanks anyway. Dave