On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 17:03, Gordon Charrick wrote: > I've got an HP pocket PC with a USB docking cradle. I'm also running > winxp under VMware and I want the docking cradle to be used there. > Unfortunately, fedora is grabbing the device first and VMware can't see > it. I've been trying to figure out how to fix this through hotplug but > haven't been able to yet. > > This is the messages logged when the pocket pc is plugged in and the > entry from the lsusb command. > > Jul 20 16:59:38 gmc kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:11.2-2, assigned > address 12 > Jul 20 16:59:40 gmc kernel: usbserial.c: PocketPC PDA converter detected > Jul 20 16:59:40 gmc kernel: usbserial.c: PocketPC PDA converter now > attached to ttyUSB0 (or usb/tts/0 for devfs) > Jul 20 16:59:43 gmc usb.agent[31327]: missing kernel or user mode driver > ipaq > Jul 20 16:59:43 gmc kernel: sda: Unit Not Ready, sense: > Jul 20 16:59:43 gmc kernel: Info fld=0xa00 (nonstd), Current 00:00: > sense key Not Ready > > > [root@gmc hotplug]# lsusb > Bus 003 Device 013: ID 03f0:1016 Hewlett-Packard Jornada 548 Pocket PC try putting a hotplug blacklist /etc/hotplug/blacklist Might or might not be what you want.. It'll make sure that Linux won't _ever_ recognise it. -- Ow Mun Heng Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 on D600 1.4Ghz CPU kernel 2.6.7-2.jul1-interactive Neuromancer 20:18:43 up 38 min, 4 users, load average: 1.75, 1.79, 1.34