On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 20:03 -0700, Kurt Granroth wrote:
> I have a bit of a unique situation, I think, and I can't seem to find
> a way to get things to work the way I want. Here's the deal: I have
> a Windows XP session running inside of VMWare that I use for a few
> necessary tasks that are not doable under Linux or OS X. One of the
> essential apps for doing this is the wonderful SplashID program, half
> of which runs on the desktop and half on my Palm. Since I want to
> keep the desktop version and the Palm version in sync, I necessarily
> have to do the HotSync inside of the VMWare session. Back in the
> day, that would have worked just fine... but these days, SuSE is just
> too darn good at autodetecting and configuring things like that. I
> mean, as soon as I press the HotSync button the cradle, I see
> messages in /var/log/messages saying that it recognizes it as a
> Handspring Visor and gives the model and configures everything just
> great.
>
> Pretty sweet, huh? Well, not in my case. I want VMWare to handle
> all this but as long as the host operating system takes control,
> VMWare refuses to touch it.
>
> So what I want to do is DISABLE the USB autodetection and have no
> idea how. Any clues how SuSE 10.0 is doing this?
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don't know SuSE but Fedora would have this stuff
in /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules and you might want to assign stuff in
10-udev.rules instead of fooling with distribution files that might get
updated.
Craig
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