Can you confirm that the USB in virtualbox is enabled as well as tied to the host?
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I installed virtualbox version 3.0.4 for sles 10 but the usb not works.
Can somebody help me, thx.
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This id is from a: HUAWEI E220 chipset 12d1:1003
The kernel version of SLES 10 is AFAICT 2.6.16 (plus patches from Suse).
The kernel version that supports the chipset is 2.6.20 or new, so you realy do need a more modern kernel. (2.6.16 is about 3 years old), is has been patched but no new drivers have been added.
Current kernel version is 2.6.30.
Well you can download the kernel sources from http://kernel.org
Un pack them in /usr/src/linux ; cd to that directory.
grab the .config file that was used with The Suse kernel copy it to the same directory.
Then run make oldconfig, & answer all the questions.
them make bzImage; make modules
after that copy the kernel image to the boot partition & setup grub/lilo to point to your new kernel. activate the modules with: make modules_install;
My guess is that you now have some itches about the process. If so try a different path:
Update to SLES 11? That appears to have kernel 2.6.27 that should be able to support it.
You can allways try a Bootable CD with a different distribution (ubuntu, fedora) if you just want to try.
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by: oklitPosted on 2009-08-12 at 08:32:40ID: 25079751
What usb device do you want to connect to virtualbox? Not all devices works (some cameras won't work probably with current version).
Do you see these devices in virtualbox, but they are 'grayed' on the list? If so, you have permission problem - give access to these devices to your user/virtualbox user.