Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of USB_on_Fedora_6

Timestamp:

Mar 15, 2007 4:27:41 PM (17 years ago)

Author:

Michael Thayer

Comment:

HOWTO on "How to setup USB with udev on Fedora 6"

USB_on_Fedora_6

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+= How to setup USB with udev on Fedora 6 =
+Andre Srinivasan 02/16/07 00:59:24
+
+This is how I resolved my VirtualBox USB issues on FC6 which uses udev, not usbfs. 
+- Decide what group usb devices will be in and add yourself to that group. I chose usb (if you choose something else, be sure to update the chgrp commands below).
+
+- Add /etc/udev/rules.d/51-usb-group.rules: 
+
+{{{
+SUBSYSTEM=="usb_device", RUN="/etc/udev/scripts/set-usb-group '%c'" 
+}}}
+ 
+- Add /etc/udev/scripts/set-usb-group: 
+
+{{{
+ #! /bin/sh 
+ ret=false if [ "$1" != "" ]; then 
+ if [ -f /proc/$1 ]; then 
+ chgrp usb /proc/$1 && \ chmod g+rw /proc/$1 && \ logger udev/set-usb-group: ls -l /proc/$1 ret=true 
+ fi 
+ if [ -e /dev/$1 ]; then 
+ chgrp usb /dev/$1 && \ chmod g+rw /dev/$1 && \ logger udev/set-usb-group: ls -l /dev/$1 ret=true 
+ fi 
+ else 
+ logger udev/set-usb-group: Called without device arg exit 0 
+ fi 
+ if ! $ret; then 
+ logger udev/set-usb-group: Setting permissions on device $1 failed 
+ fi 
+}}}
+
+- Reboot
+
+- Revel in how much faster VirtualBox is than VMPlayer. 
+
+ -andre.