On Sun, 2012-08-05 at 19:16 -0400, H.S. wrote: > On 08/05/2012 07:01 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Sun, 2012-08-05 at 18:33 -0400, H.S. wrote: > >> Alright, just restarted the whole machine. What is happening now is the > >> following (or so it seems to be from the log, pasted further below): > >> 1. Usbcore sees teh device. > >> 2. It "disconnects" it or "unmanages" it because? Looks like because > >> VBox is capturing the device. > >> 3. Network manager gets involved and gets a dhcp address from the USB > >> device. > >> 4. A usb0 is created nevertheless (if the usb0 device was captured by > >> the guest OS, should it still result in a usb0 in the host?). > > > > I don't know. > > > > Why do you wish to use the USB network device by the guest? > > This is a Via 1535 Tomtom. It uses an application in Windows to install > all its updates on the device. I use Linux at home and am trying to make > work through a Windows VM. > > The Tomtom device makes itself a network device, not sure why.
Ok. Did you test if this software runs on wine, before you used VBox? I'm in a similar situation as you are, but before I installed VBox and XP as guest, I tried to use iTunes with wine. Your last resort is to bite the bullet by installing XP to your machine. I heard that it should be possible to install XP on any partition, there shouldn't be the need to install it on a primary partition, but perhaps this depends to the used Windows, a crack or a licensed version, perhaps what edition of XP is used. I never noticed that there is a choice, on what partition it should be installed. If you should install XP, don't forget to backup at least the MBR. Regards, Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1344210020.1262.6.camel@localhost.localdomain
