Hi, At my behest, a friend installed openSUSE 10.2 on his new Core2 Duo-based machine. He's liking it pretty well, but there's one serious problem that needs to be resolved: The current implementation of VMware (he's using the free Server version) is not compatible with the USB changes made in 10.2 (specifically, the exclusion from the kernel of the old USB support).
I need to help him (and later on, myself, too) create a kernel or system configuratino that will allow VMware to access USB devices in the host operating system. So I'm looking for two things: 1) Specific recommendations on the most expedient way to endow the kernel in openSUSE 10.2 with this USB support. In particular, is it possible to simply load (or build and load) a kernel module to reenable the USB filesystem (known variously as usbfs, usbdevfs, USB_DEVICEFS, or /proc/bus/usb)? 2) Assuming a full kernel rebuild is required, I'd like to get some recommendations for informational resources of a tutorial nature on how to build a late-model kernel with emphasis on anything openSUSE-specific or -related. I found this How-To Forge article: <http://www.howtoforge.com/kernel_compilation_suse>. If anyone is familiar with it and can comment on its usefulness, that would be helpful. Please be aware that I have done my homework and searched the Web, read the threads from this list back in Dec. of 2006 as well as the VMware counterpart and have read the Novell Bugzilla log for 210899 (<https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=210899>). I have found some resources that address this question. On the VMware forums this simple recipe was suggested: 1. Install kernel-sources and kernel-syms 2. copy .config and Modules.symvers from /usr/src/linux-obj/<your kernel> to /usr/src/linux 3. make oldconfig 4. make menuconfig, select the usbfs 5. make modules && make modules_install 6. change noauto to auto for the usbfs in fstab 7. reboot 8. ta-da (To which I might add, "Lather; Rinse; Repeat", but the literal-minded among us would be washing their hair forever.) So I'm asking here because I specifically want the advice of this lists's participants. Thanks. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
