On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Daniel Beer <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 04:18:19PM -0500, John Porubek wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Daniel Beer <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Probably easiest just to use GID 1000, which you're already in. Try
>> > this (as root):
>> >
>> >    umount /proc/bus/usb
>> >    mount -t usbfs none /proc/bus/usb -o devgid=1000,devmode=0664
>> >
>> > If you want to tidy things up later, you might like to make a "usb"
>> > group, add yourself to it and have usbfs mounted with the GID of
>> > the "usb" group.
>> >
>>
>> As it turns out, I was using the right GID but the wrong mount point.
>> Under Ubuntu 9.10, instead of "/proc/bus/usb", I had to use
>> "/dev/bus/usb". Also, I had to add my UID to the mount options
>> (devuid=1000). I haven't made a "usb" group yet, but I think I will.
>>
>> Now if I only could make this stick across reboots. As I understand
>> it, one would normally use fstab to apply mounts at bootup. However,
>> I'm not sure if that applies here, or, if it does, how to do it. Any
>> ideas?
>
> If the init scripts consult /etc/fstab when mounting procfs, you
> could add a line like this:
>
> none    /dev/bus/usb    usbfs   devuid=1000     0       0
>
> I haven't tried this, however.
>
> - Daniel

It works! Thank you so much for your help and for creating a great
tool and making it available. Now to compile the latest version and
try it out with an eZ430-F2013 and FET430UIF. I may be back. ;^)

--John

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