Make sure you have the following in /etc/fstab: none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0
if you add that during a session, do a: mount -a as root to mount the USB devices. ap ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 12:02:42PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > > Kent West wrote: > > > > >Paul E Condon wrote: > > > > > >>I am attempting to get working a USB connection from > > >>my Sarge machine to a Handspring Visor. I have never before had USB > > >>working on this machine (never tried > > >>before). > > > > > > > > Also, usbview might be of some value to you. > > > > -- > > Kent > > > Thanks, Kent. But ... > I remembered selecting ttyUSB0 during configure of jpilot. > I used dpkg-reconfigure to re-do that and select ttyUSB1. > Didn't change the results. I installed usbview, and have > a new error message that may give a clue as to what I should > do next. When I try to run usbview I get an error box containing > > "Can not open the file /proc/bus/usb/devices > > Verify that you have USB compiled into your kernel, > have the USB core modules loaded, and have the > usbdevfs filesystem mounted." > > The stock kernel that I'm using seems to have USB support, and > according to lsmod, usbcore and usb-uhci are loaded. > But I haven't done anything about usbdevfs. This is the first > I've heard of it. I don't find a debian package for usbdevfs > or anything about it in man pages, so where do I find out about > usbdevfs? > > > -- > Paul E Condon > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
