Neil Greenwood wrote: > 2009/7/14 Wulfy <wulfm...@tiscali.co.uk>: > >> That's what I did. The settings indicated that the USB port was >> enabled. It appeared in the menu with the printer as seen by the VB >> container. But it was greyed out and I couldn't tick the box. So >> although it was seen, it wasn't actually passing the port through to the >> client OS... >> >> -- >> Blessings >> >> Wulfmann >> > > Sorry, I'm out of ideas now. > > Neil. > I've seen something like this with a couple of USB devices. It turns out to be a module had loaded for the device and hence was tying up the device. After unloading the module I was able to attach the device to the Virtual Box client.
Might be worth having a look to see if your printer loads any modules when it is turned on/attached and if so, try unloading these modules and then start Virtual Box. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/