On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:46:34PM +0530, Manavendra Nath Manav wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Manavendra Nath Manav >> <mnm.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > Hi All, >> > >> > I am having a USB CDC ethernet device whose driver exists only for >> > Linux. However, my end application needs to run on Windows. So, I have >> > set up Ubuntu 11.10 on Virtual Box running on Windows-7. Ubuntu is >> > able to register the device but not able to open an interface for it, >> > say eth1, etc. >> > >> > [ 382.531901] usb 2-1: new full speed USB device number 4 using uhci_hcd >> > [ 392.992690] cdc_ether: probe of 2-1:2.0 failed with error -32 >> > >> > e518816@ubuntu:~$ lsusb >> > Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub >> > Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub >> > Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0e0f:0002 VMware, Inc. Virtual USB Hub >> > Bus 002 Device 004: ID 0e1e:0800 >> > e518816@ubuntu:~$ >> > >> > My device is "Bus 002 Device 004". How to enable USB CDC ethernet on >> > this device and expose this interface to Windows using a loop-back >> > adapter. Any solution on VMware would also be helpful. >> > >> > -- >> > Manavendra Nath Manav >> >> Any inputs about what might be the problem. I am able to register the >> device perfectly on standalone Linux machine but on Linux running on >> Virtual box, USB CDC ethernet device is not able to register. Any help >> would be greatly appreciated. > > As this is a Windows issue, combined with virtual box, I suggest you ask > on a virtualbox mailing list, there's nothing we can do here, sorry. > > best of luck, > > greg k-h Okay, I will post in Virtual box mailing list too. Just a small query, what does "[usb probe] failed with error -32" means here? I am just curious to know can we reverse engineer the root cause by looking at this error. -- Manavendra Nath Manav _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
