On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Kay Sievers <kay@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman > <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 03:06:33PM +0800, Jeff Chua wrote: > >>> >> VMware USB Arbitration Service Version 8.4.19 >>> >> USB: Unable to open "/proc/bus/usb/devices" (No such file or directory). > > I think vmware tries to open the usual /dev/bus/usb/ nodes directly > after it has tried the deprecated /proc nodes. > > Udev would create the /dev/bus/ nodes. > > Or the kernel would create them itself if: > CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y > CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT=y > is used. > >> Use /dev/usb/ device nodes instead. If you have a distro that has static >> device nodes, just add them to the package that has those nodes, and you >> should be fine. That will bring you into the mid 2000's as far as >> device nodes go, I'm amazed that this hasn't been noticed before now. > > Many distros have disabled the USB_DEVICEFS option and there are > usually no reports about problems any more. > > But I guess the number of systems that want to run USB devices, and > pass them along to virtualization, but have an unmanaged static /dev > are close to one user these days. :) Yep, it's just me (the one), I guess. Configured kernel as suggested, and it's all working now. Sorry, as for the distro, it's just bare minimum...but works wonderfully well. Thanks again for all your help! Jeff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
