Kunbuntu HH 8.04 and Virtualbox 2.2 and usb support

[Larry Hartman]

On Sunday 12 October 2008 04:06:48 pm Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Sunday 12 October 2008, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> > I have the latest vbox 2.0.2.0.2.0.2.0.2......  <ad nauseum>  running on
> > Hardy and the USB is working fine as it always did.   But somewhere here
> > I have a document that tells what to do to make it work.
> >
> > Will try to dig up the details....    stay tuned and have hope.
>
> Ok, here at least for starters:
>
> The document:
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=690713
>
> is the one I originally used to get USB working but things have changed a
> little since Gutsy.
>
> You want to start at the point where they tell you to
> edit  /etc/udev/rules.d/40-permissions.rules
>
> and make your edit look like:
>
>
> # USB serial converters
> SUBSYSTEM=="usb_device",  GOTO="usb_serial_start"
> SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", GOTO="usb_serial_start"
> GOTO="usb_serial_end"
> LABEL="usb_serial_start"
> ATTRS{idVendor}=="0403", ATTRS{idProduct}=="6001", \
>                                         MODE="0666", GROUP="dialout"
> LABEL="usb_serial_end"

The ATTRS line looks vendor specific, will this work on any hardware?

Larry