On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 15:33, Miark wrote: > I'm trying to use a USB scanner in VMWare, but it reports > that Linux won't let it go: > > The specified device appears to be claimed by another driver > (usbscanner) on the host operating system which means that the device > may be in use. VMware Workstation cannot safely take control of the > device until the host driver is unloaded. > > How do I get rid of the usbscanner driver, and is there a way > to temporarily disable it? > > Miark
Miark have you tried putting the driver into the hotplug blacklist? This is supposed to prevent the driver from being auto-loaded upon insertion. James
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