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
