USBView Error on Hardy 8.04 AMD64

[Derek Broughton]

Paul Johnson wrote:

> from the README.libusb file that is distributed with pilot-link. I
> think your software is looking where the stuff is not now located, and
> you can address by adding line in /etc/fstab.
> 
> mount the kernel's usbfs
> ---------------------------------------------------
> Make sure you have usbfs mounted, which can be found in
> fstab, by adding the following line:
> 
> # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>
> none            /proc/bus/usb   usbfs   defaults
> 
> Then 'mount -a' to make sure its mounted. You should
> now have a /proc/bus/usb directory heirarchy. The "new"
> udev and libusb will be using /dev/bus/usb, but many
> applications still use /proc/bus/usb, so we'll mount it
> until that gets deprecated.
> 

You're bang on Paul - I remember having to do approximately that myself (in
my case, istr I installed an older version of an /etc/init.d/ script to do
the same thing).
-- 
derek