Re: [SLE] Disable Hotplug For Individual Device

Dave Barton wrote:

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 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. -- JDL