There has been recent spate of interest ion this topic. See
http://www.owfs.org/index.php?page=217 for a great writeup by Peter Kropf.
The problem is that hardware access by non-root users is a security risk,
and so not allowed without explicit permission. Permission is easy for
serial ports, which usually have a static device, but dynamically allocated
devices, like the USB ports, require a little fancier setup.
I've written a script that automates this -- perhaps it will work on
Mandriva.
See
http://owfs.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/owfs/owfs/src/scripts/usb/suse_setup.sh?revision=1.1&content-type=text%2Fplain
basically it allows users in group "ow" (configurable) to access the USB
device.
If the script works on Mandriva, please report back.
Paul Alfille
On 12/2/06, chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm installing owfs on Mandriva free 2007 and upon trying to start owfs
/opt/owfs/bin/owfs -u /mnt/owfs
gives:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# ./owfs -u /mnt/owfs
Could not open the USB adapter. Is there a problem with permissions?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# ls /mnt/owfs
bus.0/ settings/ statistics/ structure/ system/ uncached/
Which permissions of what should I examine to hopefully resolve this?
I have usbview and the usb interface is viewable but no other usb tools
are
installed to my knowledge.
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