Bob,
Most likely you are using it for hotsyn to the PALM so I also added few
tricks not related specifically to your question but that are important
to hot sync with VMware. If you use the new kernel you will still need
those tips to hotsync of course you will not need to enable usbfs.
Using USB devices with VMWare under linux has been a pain due to the
fact that VMware relies on the USB filesystem at /proc/bus/usb. SuSE
10.2 unselected the support of usbfs from the kernel so mounting by
itself does not work any more. The support of usbfs is still in the
kernel but you have to enable it :-(
********1. Need to enable usbfs support in the kernel**********
Which has been disable because of security concerns.
1.1. basic requirements:
kernel-source
ncurses-devel (nedeed for make menuconfig)
so just
#yast -i ncurses-devel etc
1.2 Kernel and kernel-source should be the save version:
rpm -qa | grep kernel
1.3 Change the kernel configuration
#cd /usr/src/linux
#make menuconfig
In "make menuconfig" for kernel configuration GOTO:
-> Device Drivers//USB support/USB device filesystem and selected it!
Esc/esc until ask you to save the config. Say yes.
#make modules && make modules_install
reboot
Bob this part can be done in many different way. You can clone the
configuration file, change it and use one of the new vanilla kernels
etc. Menuconfig is the one I use but other options are also available.
This is simple and I tried in three machines and all are working very
well.
Do not do other changes in the kernel, make it simple.
********2. Change /etc/fstab:********
By Default, VMWare will NOT allow the user to attach to USB devices
connected to the physical workstation when the host OS is SuSE Linux
2.1 To allow access to USB devices attached to the workstation through
VMWare, you need to modify the /etc/fstab file as root.
/etc/fstab
Locate this line:
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
and change it to:
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs autofs 0 0
2.2 After the machine has been rebooted, the USB Device attached, and
VMWare started, select VM | Removable Devices | USB Device, and select
the device that needs to be attached to the VMWare session.
2.3 When the usb device is the Palm like in my case Treo 700p sometimes
you have another device loaded rmvisor just remove it
#rmmod visor
OR Mount the usb before starting VMware (instead of 2.1)
# mount -t usbfs /dev/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb
Continue as 2.2 and 2.3
********3. Be sure the vmimage is in focus********
********4. Hotsync********
********5. May have to start with the phone out of the craddle********
If if does not work try to repeat the mount and rmmod command and try
again.!!
Ciao
-=terry(Denver)=-
On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 12:46 +0100, Bob Williams wrote:
> On Friday 13 April 2007 15:21:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > usbfs was never removed from the kernel, it was not enable, so it was very
> > simple to turn it on.
>
> How, please?
> openSUSE 10.2 x86_64, Kernel 2.6.18.8-0.1, KDE 3.5.6 r31.4
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