Disable automatic USB detection... grasping at straws

[Ryan Meldrum]

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?
>
> Kurt
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The way I fix this is to disable the "visor" kernel module from 
loading.  Doing an lsmod will list the modules for the kernel.  If the 
visor module is loaded, then, as root, unload the visor module by rmmod 
visor.  Then the hotsync will work properly in VMWare (you may have to 
tell VMWare that the device needs to be assigned to it.)  This works 
under SuSE 10.