USB in Ubuntu 8.10

[stefan.becker]

Are you not able to read? In the FAQ is written what to do. With your description nothing can help you.

First you must help yourself. Read the FAQ, do all steps there are described for Ubuntu.

That is the only one approach that is possible.

It it doesnt work, come back with all steps done by you, extact input and ouput and error messages word by word.

[billcondie]

I really feel that it is YOU who are having the reading problem.

I went to the FAQ. I upgraded to the non open source version to get the USB working,
I can now see all the devices, which are greyed out except for my HP printer.

Now how can I get my flash drive active?

If you don't know, don''t reply.

Linux forums are notorious for being newbie-unfriendly.

Try to be helpful. FAQs are difficult for some noobs. Rather than a lecture, why not just post the relevant FAQ and explain how they could have done that themselves.

If you have difficulty understanding this I'll have it translated into Dutch for you.

[Sasquatch]

Bill, how come you see one answer, but not the others about USB? Even my father could get it working the way it's explained there, and he knows very little of Linux.

As for your flash drive, add a filter. It's all in the manual too.

Side note. I think Stefan is German, not Dutch like me.

[billcondie]

Back again wiht 9.04 and still trying to see those USB drives.

Tried to read FAQ and got this:

This topic is locked, you cannot edit posts or make further replies.

Anyone got a link?

[Sasquatch]

Of course the FAQ will be locked, it prevents stupid and useless posts from users that don't know what they are doing. The links are all in my signature. USB no longer needs special rules, it only requires that your user is a member of the vboxusers group. You should have added yourself to that group already, as VB should not be able to start without it (it does start on some systems though).

[billcondie]

USB no longer needs special rules, it only requires that your user is a member of the vboxusers group.

I am a member of said group.

Please be patient with someone stupid like me and give me an effing link

[billcondie]

The link to the USB FAQ gave me the locked message

[Sasquatch]

So you're saying that http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic. ... 944#p33944 doesn't provide you with the info you need? The VirtualBox FAQ's first post has a few links, but all they point to, are posts further down the topic.

[billcondie]

Thanks. I had trouble finding just that before.

Followed the commands in Terminal . . . and still can't get it to work.

[Sasquatch]

What are you doing then to not make it work? You did read the bold note right, if you have 2.2.0 or newer, you don't need those changes. Group membership is enough. Please state what you're doing, which version you're using and what device(s) you're trying to pass through. Use screen shots if possible of the VM screen with USB menu if possible.

[billcondie]

Ubuntu 9.04, VB 3.04, r50677

http://www.billcondie.com/imgs/usb.gif

[Sasquatch]

That's not exactly what I was talking about. I meant the Device Menu when the machine is running, not in the machine settings.

[billcondie]

Everything is greyed out there, including mouse and keyboard which work.

But all three USB drives are there.

[stefan.becker]

On some distributions you _must_ use it with USBFS.

For me at Suse 11.1 its the same. In the guest settings the devices are shown, in the guest they are disabled. Its a problem with the access rights. WIth the correct entry in USBFS its working.

In Ubuntu 9.04 it works withot any other setup like described in the manual.

So check the FAQ for special setup for Ubuntu 8.x.