= How to setup USB with udev on Fedora 6 = Contributed by Andre Srinivasan, 2007/02/16 This is how I resolved my !VirtualBox USB issues on FC6 which uses udev. - First 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.