From: "Edward Siefker" <hatta00@fastmail.fm>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ignore_device
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2009 23:57:53 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1261871873.2588.1351832403@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1261869739.30328.1351829343@webmail.messagingengine.com>
Thanks for that, that did in fact make the device "available" to
VirtualBox.
But VB is still unable to forward it, I guess I'll see what they think
then. I appreciate the rapid reply :)
-Hatta
On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:33:32 -0500, "Jim Paris" <jim@jtan.com> said:
> Edward Siefker wrote:
> > Am I barking up the wrong tree here? Is there some other way to get linux to
> > not hand my USB device over to the HID driver so it will be available
> > for VirtualBox?
>
> Use a program like this:
> http://www.linuxha.com/USB/detach.html
>
> (I can't vouch for that particular program, as it's just the result of a
> google search, but the libusb usb_detach_kernel_driver_np approach
> should be the right thing to do.)
>
> -jim
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-26 23:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-26 23:22 ignore_device Edward Siefker
2009-12-26 23:33 ` ignore_device Jim Paris
2009-12-26 23:57 ` Edward Siefker [this message]
2009-12-27 10:28 ` ignore_device Martin Pitt
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