[Wylug-discuss] Help USB devices under Virtualbox
Tommy He
lovenemesis at gmail.com
Sat Dec 5 00:39:30 UTC 2009
Hi,
As I remember there are couple of threads in VirtualBox forum related to
USB. I am sure if it were a USB storage device it would work following those
guides. However I am afraid that probably little luck for your VR Cycle lies
there.
Regards and Good luck,
Tommy He
2009/12/4 Dave Fisher <wylug-discuss at davefisher.co.uk>
> Hi,
>
> Apologies if people think this should go to wylug-help, but I've seen
> so little traffic on that list over the last year that I've got the
> impression that it is somewhat derelict.
>
> I've recently broken a long-standing gadget abstinence vow and bought
> myself a Tacx Bushido VR Cycle Trainer.
>
> Obviously, the software is Windows-only, but people have reported it
> working under VirtualBox.
>
> The software installs fine, and the USB dongle which provides wireless
> connection to the trainer hardware is correctly identified by name,
> but 'greyed out' as 'unavailable'. I've never had any problem with
> getting XP to use basic USB devices under VirtualBox, e.g. mass
> storage, cameras, serial.
>
> I suspect that the problem is trivial for someone who knows the
> secrets of Linux USB, but I don't. My suspicion is that there is
> either a problem in the way that Linux handles the dongle (e.g. the
> driver), or in the way that it passes the details on to VirtualBox ...
> although, given how little I understand of USB, it could just as well
> be a problem with VirtualBox or the Windows XP guest.
>
> The, admittedly shaky, grounds for my suspicion are the based on the
> way Linux seems to be using uhci, while the VirtualBox settings make a
> point of enabling ehci ... I realise this may be a complete red
> herring, but I've got to start somewhere ;-)
>
> I'd appreciate any suggestions on the above and the following output
> from dmesg and udevadm info.
>
> Any advice on how to get useful diagnostics out of VirtualBox or XP
> might be very helpful.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave
>
> =====
> dmesg
> =====
>
> [ 1183.161264] usb 6-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and
> address 6
> [ 1183.334850] usb 6-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> [ 1183.340794] cp210x 6-1:1.0: cp210x converter detected
> [ 1183.460013] usb 6-1: reset full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and
> address 6
> [ 1183.618833] usb 6-1: cp210x converter now attached to ttyUSB0
>
> ====================================
> udevadm info --attribute-walk --name /dev/ttyUSB0
> ====================================
>
> Udevadm info starts with the device specified by the devpath and then
> walks up the chain of parent devices. It prints for every device
> found, all possible attributes in the udev rules key format.
> A rule to match, can be composed by the attributes of the device
> and the attributes from one single parent device.
>
> looking at device
> '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb6/6-1/6-1:1.0/ttyUSB0/tty/ttyUSB0':
> KERNEL=="ttyUSB0"
> SUBSYSTEM=="tty"
> DRIVER==""
>
> looking at parent device
> '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb6/6-1/6-1:1.0/ttyUSB0':
> KERNELS=="ttyUSB0"
> SUBSYSTEMS=="usb-serial"
> DRIVERS=="cp210x"
> ATTRS{port_number}=="0"
>
> looking at parent device
> '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb6/6-1/6-1:1.0':
> KERNELS=="6-1:1.0"
> SUBSYSTEMS=="usb"
> DRIVERS=="cp210x"
> ATTRS{bInterfaceNumber}=="00"
> ATTRS{bAlternateSetting}==" 0"
> ATTRS{bNumEndpoints}=="02"
> ATTRS{bInterfaceClass}=="ff"
> ATTRS{bInterfaceSubClass}=="00"
> ATTRS{bInterfaceProtocol}=="00"
> ATTRS{modalias}=="usb:v0FCFp1004d0300dc00dsc00dp00icFFisc00ip00"
> ATTRS{supports_autosuspend}=="0"
> ATTRS{interface}=="Dynastream ANT2USB"
>
> looking at parent device '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb6/6-1':
> KERNELS=="6-1"
> SUBSYSTEMS=="usb"
> DRIVERS=="usb"
> ATTRS{configuration}==""
> ATTRS{bNumInterfaces}==" 1"
> ATTRS{bConfigurationValue}=="1"
> ATTRS{bmAttributes}=="80"
> ATTRS{bMaxPower}=="100mA"
> ATTRS{urbnum}=="17"
> ATTRS{idVendor}=="0fcf"
> ATTRS{idProduct}=="1004"
> ATTRS{bcdDevice}=="0300"
> ATTRS{bDeviceClass}=="00"
> ATTRS{bDeviceSubClass}=="00"
> ATTRS{bDeviceProtocol}=="00"
> ATTRS{bNumConfigurations}=="1"
> ATTRS{bMaxPacketSize0}=="64"
> ATTRS{speed}=="12"
> ATTRS{busnum}=="6"
> ATTRS{devnum}=="6"
> ATTRS{version}==" 1.10"
> ATTRS{maxchild}=="0"
> ATTRS{quirks}=="0x0"
> ATTRS{authorized}=="1"
> ATTRS{manufacturer}=="Silicon Labs"
> ATTRS{product}=="Dynastream ANT2USB"
> ATTRS{serial}=="10143"
>
> looking at parent device '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb6':
> KERNELS=="usb6"
> SUBSYSTEMS=="usb"
> DRIVERS=="usb"
> ATTRS{configuration}==""
> ATTRS{bNumInterfaces}==" 1"
> ATTRS{bConfigurationValue}=="1"
> ATTRS{bmAttributes}=="e0"
> ATTRS{bMaxPower}==" 0mA"
> ATTRS{urbnum}=="149"
> ATTRS{idVendor}=="1d6b"
> ATTRS{idProduct}=="0001"
> ATTRS{bcdDevice}=="0206"
> ATTRS{bDeviceClass}=="09"
> ATTRS{bDeviceSubClass}=="00"
> ATTRS{bDeviceProtocol}=="00"
> ATTRS{bNumConfigurations}=="1"
> ATTRS{bMaxPacketSize0}=="64"
> ATTRS{speed}=="12"
> ATTRS{busnum}=="6"
> ATTRS{devnum}=="1"
> ATTRS{version}==" 1.10"
> ATTRS{maxchild}=="2"
> ATTRS{quirks}=="0x0"
> ATTRS{authorized}=="1"
> ATTRS{manufacturer}=="Linux 2.6.31-14-generic uhci_hcd"
> ATTRS{product}=="UHCI Host Controller"
> ATTRS{serial}=="0000:00:1d.0"
> ATTRS{authorized_default}=="1"
>
> looking at parent device '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0':
> KERNELS=="0000:00:1d.0"
> SUBSYSTEMS=="pci"
> DRIVERS=="uhci_hcd"
> ATTRS{vendor}=="0x8086"
> ATTRS{device}=="0x2934"
> ATTRS{subsystem_vendor}=="0x1458"
> ATTRS{subsystem_device}=="0x5004"
> ATTRS{class}=="0x0c0300"
> ATTRS{irq}=="23"
> ATTRS{local_cpus}=="00000000,00000003"
> ATTRS{local_cpulist}=="0-1"
> ATTRS{modalias}=="pci:v00008086d00002934sv00001458sd00005004bc0Csc03i00"
> ATTRS{numa_node}=="0"
> ATTRS{broken_parity_status}=="0"
> ATTRS{msi_bus}==""
>
> looking at parent device '/devices/pci0000:00':
> KERNELS=="pci0000:00"
> SUBSYSTEMS==""
> DRIVERS==""
>
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