From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Heath E. Petersen" Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 16:18:59 +0000 Subject: Re: Linux-hotplug-devel digest, Vol 1 #208 - 4 msgs Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org > Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 15:28:12 -0500 > From: Sean McHenry > Organization: McHenry Technologies > Subject: VMware / RH 7.2 hotplug issues > > Folks, > I am having quite a bit of trouble getting my USB printer to install > under VMware. =A0I have RH 7.2 as the Host OS and WinMe as the guest OS. . . . Sorry for the delay, but I hope this helps - VMWare simply passes all USB data from the peripheral to the client VM=20 (WinME), and passes all USB data from the client VM back to the peripheral.= =20 In order to do this, it needs to bind to the USB device on the host OS=20 (Linux). If there is already a kernel module / driver bound to the device,= =20 VMWare is unable to access it. What you want to do is keep the host OS (Linux) from automatically loading = the module for the device, so VMWare is able to access it. To do this, you need to add the usb driver for the device to=20 /etc/hotplug/blacklist. Here are the lines I'd recommend for your situatio= n: # --- begin lines to add to /etc/hotplug/blacklist # Disable autoloading the USB printer module so VMWare # can access the USB printer printer # --- end lines to add to /etc/hotplug/blacklist After this, you should run 'modprobe -r printer' as root to unload the=20 module, in case it's already loaded. Now, when Linux detects the printer, = it=20 will not load the 'printer' module automatically. VMWare should not have=20 problems accessing the printer USB device any more. Please note that this will completely disable Linux from autoloading the US= B=20 printer module. This means that all attached USB printers will=20 stop working in Linux. I am not aware of a means to keep the module from=20 binding to one printer and not another. Good luck! PS - If, once you do this, you still have problems installing the printer=20 software under the client OS (WinME), and VMWare shows that the VM is=20 connected to the USB device, the problem is more than likely a problem with= =20 some combination of VMWare, WinME, and/or the printer software, not Linux. _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel