When my PowerMate connects, I can see the following in dmesg: usb 4-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 9 usbhid: probe of 4-1:1.0 failed with error -5 input: Griffin PowerMate on <NULL> I've tried the following udev rule with no luck (even though others (not gentoo people) have reported it to work: BUS="usb", SYSFS{product}="Griffin PowerMate", NAME="powermate", GROUP="powermate" I've never created a udev rule though, or tried to get anything like this to work, so I'm sure I've just missed a step, or done something wrong. If anyone can help me out I'd really appreciate it. So far I *think* what's happening, is the powermate is connecting, and udev isn't giving it a place in /dev so nothing can use it. Also I've verified that the device works properly by booting into Windows. It works great in Windows (very cool product). Also I've got the kernel module compiled and loaded and everything. Here is an output of lsusb -v (in case this helps): Bus 004 Device 009: ID 077d:0410 Griffin Technology Device Descriptor: bLength 18 bDescriptorType 1 bcdUSB 1.00 bDeviceClass 0 Interface bDeviceSubClass 0 bDeviceProtocol 0 bMaxPacketSize0 8 idVendor 0x077d Griffin Technology idProduct 0x0410 bcdDevice 4.00 iManufacturer 1 Griffin Technology, Inc. iProduct 2 Griffin PowerMate iSerial 0 bNumConfigurations 1 Configuration Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 2 wTotalLength 41 bNumInterfaces 1 bConfigurationValue 1 iConfiguration 4 bmAttributes 0xa0 Remote Wakeup MaxPower 100mA Interface Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 4 bInterfaceNumber 0 bAlternateSetting 0 bNumEndpoints 2 bInterfaceClass 3 Human Interface Devices bInterfaceSubClass 0 No Subclass bInterfaceProtocol 0 None iInterface 5 Endpoint 1 HID Device Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 33 bcdHID 1.00 bCountryCode 0 bNumDescriptors 1 bDescriptorType 34 Report wDescriptorLength 74 cannot get report descriptor Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN bmAttributes 3 Transfer Type Interrupt Synch Type none wMaxPacketSize 6 bInterval 10 Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x02 EP 2 OUT bmAttributes 3 Transfer Type Interrupt Synch Type none wMaxPacketSize 1 bInterval 10 Language IDs: (length=4) 0409 English(US) Here is my emerge --info: Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.0, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.10.SpaceDolphin i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10.SpaceDolphin i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 distcc 2.16 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3 Headers: sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks grc sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/mirror/gentoo.org ftp://gentoo.agsn.ca/ http://gentoo.llarian.net/ http://gentoo.binarycompass.org" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://SpaceTree/portage" USE="x86 X Xaw3d aalib acl alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bonobo cdr crypt cups curl dri dvd encode esd fam fbcon flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif glx gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imagemagick imap imlib imlib2 ipv6 jack java jikes joystick jpeg junit kde lcms libwww mad maildir mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg mpeg4 mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pda pdflib perl plotutils png ppds python qt quicktime readline ruby samba sdl slp speex spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb videos wmf wxwindows xinerama xml xml2 xmms xosd xv zlib" Any help would be appreciated! If I can give more info please just let me know. Thanks! Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Just curious if anyone is looking into this or has any idea about this? If someone has ideas for me to try I'll certainly do whatever needs to be done, and post results if necessary.
Problem solution found. See my <a href="http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Griffin_PowerMate_with_UDEV_and_Kernel_2.6.x">wiki entry</a> for more details.
