[opensuse] Re: mounting usb pendriver - openSUSE10.3 / vmware - dmesg doesn't show /dev/<what>

Varghese Mathew writes:

opensuse103-vm:/home/varmathe # lsmod | grep usb usb_storage 80780 0 ide_core 122948 1 usb_storage usbcore 123372 3 usb_storage,uhci_hcd scsi_mod 140376 6 usb_storage,sr_mod,sg,sd_mod,BusLogic,libata

Strange, the mass storage modules are loaded. Have you used this drive before on another machine? I wonder if it is a hardware problem.

""" Cannot open the file /proc/bus/usb/devices

Verify that you have USB compiled into your kernel, have the USB core modules loaded, and have the usbdevfs filesystem mounted. """

Answered in another post. Charles