On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Nicola Maggi<nicola.maggi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm using a Scientific Linux CERN 4 distro which uses udev version
> 039-10.22. It is quite old but i cannot update it for various reasons.
>
> I have a usb device to be configured by udev and a rule provided by
> the manufacturer to recognize the device and set permissions to
> everyone.
>
> # For FedoraCore 5 and similar:
> SUBSYSTEM=="usb_device", SYSFS{idVendor}=="151f", MODE="0666"
>
> # For FedoraCore 7 and similar:
> SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="151f", MODE="0666"
>
> As stated in the comments the rule is designed for FedoraCore5 which
> uses a more recent version of udev.
> My problem is that using this rule in my configuration only root is
> allowed to use the device(while it works with FC5).
>
> I tried to change this rule a bit trying to adapt it to an older
> version of udev but I didn't get any success.
>
Maybe udev is not working in this setup and you can try
hotplug.
Example:
http://piklab.sf.net/files/libusb_udev_hotplug.txt
http://piklab.wiki.sourceforge.net/USB+Port+Problems
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