blacklisting a device

[Armijn Hemel]

On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 12:21:32PM -0500, Cheuksan Edward Wang wrote:

> > > I have a special USB device. HAL tries to probe it and I get a lot of
> > > these error messages in my log:
> > >
> > > usb 2-2: hald timed out on ep0in
> > > usb 2-2: hald timed out on ep0in
> > > usb 2-2: hald timed out on ep0in
> >
> > Interesting. What kind of device is this? Would be useful with the
> > appropriate snippet from lsusb.
> 
> 
> wang at ubuntu:~ $ lsusb
> 
> Bus 001 Device 003: ID 07f2:0001

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FYI, a quick search revealed that it is this device (in case anyone wanted
to know):

http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-usb-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg08681.html

So it seems like it is some sort of licensing dongle to be able to run some
specific program on Windows XP. According to that report it's just the
dongle that is broken...

armijn

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