Sure... the reason that I posted it here is so that it would get indexed and hence be googleable so that us mortals can find it too :)
Mike On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Jean-Baptiste Queru <[email protected]> wrote: > > Do you think that you could copy-paste your email (as is) in a new bug > report at b.android.com so that we don't lose track of it? > > Thanks, > JBQ > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:27 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I've finally figured out what was going wrong with the udev stuff on >> Fedora Core 6 >> setting up the USB device for adb. The advice for Ubuntu may be correct, but >> it >> doesn't work out of the box with Fedora Core 6 and probably higher. The >> reason >> is because Fedora Core 6 has a rule in /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules >> for all new >> USB devices which sets modes, etc. The advice for Ubuntu is to make a >> file called >> 50-android.rules and place it in the rules directory. Note that just >> like init(1), udev >> scans the rules directory in sorted order which means that 50-android >> is executed >> *before* 50-udev. >> >> The net effect here is that 50-udev sets the permissions on the new device >> back >> to 0644 which is to say, no write permission for userland adb and the >> subsequent >> non-love (running adb's server as root ought to work). Here's the simple fix: >> >> 1) create a file to 51-android.rules in rules.d >> 2) put this incantation in it: >> >> SUBSYSTEM=="usb_device",SYSFS{idVendor}=="0bb4",SYMLINK+="android_adb",MODE="0666" >> >> 3) as root after you've created the file, kick udev with: udevcontrol >> reload_rules >> 4) plug in the device and enjoy! >> >> It would be *really* nice if this or something like it found its way >> back into the >> documentation ::wink wink:: In fact, the advice for Ubuntu Dapper is the >> exact same rule as Fedora, so most likely just changing the docs to create >> 51-android will work for both Fedora and Ubuntu Dapper. >> >> Mike >> >> > >> > > > > -- > Jean-Baptiste M. "JBQ" Queru > Android Engineer, Google. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
