Hi everyone,

I was able to get USB working with openSUSE 10.2 - to be precise, someone
else figured it out for VMWare and it applies for VirtualBox.

Many thanks to Alexey Eremenko for the hint on the kernel parameter which
needed to be compiled.

The basic upshot is there's a security hole by doing the following so only
do this on a secured machine - see
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=210899

How to re-add USB support
=========================
1) Recompile and install the openSUSE 10.2 stock kernel with
CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS=y
2) Comment out the old 'usbfs' entry in /etc/fstab and replace it with:

        /dev/bus/usb   /proc/bus/usb   usbfs    defaults   0 0

Done!

Additional resources
====================
The following link provides the crux of the solution:

        http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?showtopic=27788

Cheers,
-pablo


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