Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP - hotplug / udev / auto-loading of firmware

[Lee Patton]

On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 07:44 +0100, Kalen Watermeyer wrote:
> I ask because I run Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper), which uses
> udev, and will need to edit my device manager's rules
> to identify my custom board, and am not sure if this
> is necessary. Oh, and the OS detects my FX2 micro when
> I run lsusb (albeit unconfigured).
> 
> Finally, if I do have to edit the rules (SYSFS,
> VendorId etc), what exactly will I need to let my
> system know? (I have read udev docs briefly, but was a
> little confused)

You don't necessarily have to do this, but it is useful to run as a
non-root user.  See the following link for specific details:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnuradio/2006-06/msg00213.html