USB Scanner Permission Problem

Gerry Tool gstool at earthlink.net
Fri Nov 19 16:50:10 UTC 2004


Tim Waugh wrote:

>On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 10:12:45AM -0600, Gerry Tool wrote:
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>>There is no /dev/usb/, let alone a link.  This is a system that started 
>>with a fresh anaconda install and has all updates-released as of this 
>>morning.
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>Does 'ps axf' show a process 'sleep 1'?  I think perhaps when there
>are no other USB devices nodes /dev/usb isn't created at all, and the
>libusbscanner hotplug script doesn't seem to cope with that.
>
>Tim.
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[root at gstpc-fc3 dev]# ps axf | grep sleep
13090 ?        S<     0:00  |               \_ sleep 1
13092 pts/2    S+     0:00          \_ grep sleep

Do I take it right that I should plug in another device, like a USB 
flash drive to get this to work?

Gerry




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