On Friday 06 Feb 2015 16:58:26 Peter Merchant wrote:
> On 06/02/15 16:02, Terry Coles wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Apropos my attempts to get gnome-boxes working, I'm beginning to believe
> > that even if I did manage to get WXP installed and running, the USB
> > devices may still not work.
> >
> > A few minutes ago, I had a brainwave and ran tail -f /var/log/syslog just
> > before I plugged the device in (it's an efergy power monitor). This was
> > the result:
> >
> > Feb 6 15:53:14 BEIGE kernel: [22184.524114] usb 5-2: new full-speed USB
> > device number 9 using ohci-pci
> > Feb 6 15:53:14 BEIGE kernel: [22184.702208] usb 5-2: New USB device
> > found,
> > idVendor=0403, idProduct=6001
> > Feb 6 15:53:14 BEIGE kernel: [22184.702221] usb 5-2: New USB device
> > strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
> > Feb 6 15:53:14 BEIGE kernel: [22184.702228] usb 5-2: Product: FT232R USB
> > UART Feb 6 15:53:14 BEIGE kernel: [22184.702234] usb 5-2: Manufacturer:
> > FTDI Feb 6 15:53:14 BEIGE kernel: [22184.702239] usb 5-2: SerialNumber:
> > A700f3DB Feb 6 15:53:14 BEIGE kernel: [22184.708420] ftdi_sio 5-2:1.0:
> > FTDI USB Serial Device converter detected
> > Feb 6 15:53:14 BEIGE kernel: [22184.708655] usb 5-2: Detected FT232RL
> > Feb 6 15:53:14 BEIGE kernel: [22184.708661] usb 5-2: Number of endpoints
> > 2
> > Feb 6 15:53:14 BEIGE kernel: [22184.708666] usb 5-2: Endpoint 1
> > MaxPacketSize 64
> > Feb 6 15:53:14 BEIGE kernel: [22184.708671] usb 5-2: Endpoint 2
> > MaxPacketSize 64
> > Feb 6 15:53:14 BEIGE kernel: [22184.708676] usb 5-2: Setting
> > MaxPacketSize 64 Feb 6 15:53:14 BEIGE kernel: [22184.713003] usb 5-2:
> > FTDI USB Serial Device converter now attached to ttyUSB0
> > Feb 6 15:53:14 BEIGE mtp-probe: checking bus 5, device 9:
> > "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:13.0/usb5/5-2"
> > Feb 6 15:53:14 BEIGE mtp-probe: bus: 5, device: 9 was not an MTP device
> > Feb 6 15:53:18 BEIGE colord-sane: io/hpmud/pp.c 627: unable to read
> > device-id ret=-1
> >
> > As you can see, the last two lines appear to indicate something not quite
> > right and the device doesn't show up in the KDE Device Manager. When I
> > try to set the device up in VirtualBox, it also says that no devices are
> > found.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
>
> idVendor=0403 seems to indicate that it is a FTDI USB Serial Device
> converter. I have seen on my HUDL the notation about it being a mtp type
> connection when connected to Kubuntu, which I assume is something
> different. Peter
MTP is Media Transfer Protocol. I first saw in relation to connecting my MP3
Player. It certainly used to work in Kubuntu, but it may not actually be
relevant.
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