Re: SuSE, VMWare and USB (Was: UDEV rule for uploading firmware)

Re: SuSE, VMWare and USB (Was: UDEV rule for uploading firmware)

[Berthold Höllmann]

Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> writes:

> On Tue, 2006-12-26 at 21:59 +0500, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
>> Kay Sievers wrote:
>> 
>> > SUSE already disabled usbfs in the kernel, as it is no longer needed
>> > today and can't handle ACL's needed for multi-user setups. Other
>> > distros will need to do the same, when we ship a
>> > "pam_console"-successor along with HAL.
>> 
>> Does USB access from VMware products work on SUSE? If so, how?
>> 
>> Do you know any other packages that rely on old-style /proc/bus/usb (e.g., 
>> for /proc/bus/usb/devices)? How can they be taught to do the right thing?
>
> Device node access is transparent through libusb, it just looks up
> /dev/bus/usb before falling back to /proc/bus/usb. /proc/bus/usb/devices
> is deprecated for a long time now and sysfs contains all the
> needed information.
>
> Kay

On a second computer we have VMwarePlayer-1.0.2-29634 which hosts XP
Home. Using SuSE 10.1 USB access worked only with usbfs. What are the
tricks to get it working without usbfs, or does it work out of the box
for SuSE 10.2. Any expriences here?

Thanks
Berthold
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