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.