[Tfug] Really weird query: how do I totally turn off a USB device?

[earljviolet at deserthowler.com]

On Sun, May 16, 2010 5:31 pm, Jim March wrote:

>From what I remember about installing a USB device in Windows 2K in VBox
from the Sun site, I removed the device from the machine.  I went to Win2K
and plugged the device in AFTER Vbox had control of the USB ports.  Win2K
found the device and asked me about installing the device.  I then did the
install.
Then I went into device manager and got rid of all of the question marks.
At least that's how I think it went.  Getting a little forgetful.

Earl

> In other words, let's say Ubuntu appears to be "holding open" a USB
> device,
> in my case a cellular modem as seen here in lsusb:
>
> Bus 004 Device 003: ID 0c88:180a Kyocera Wireless Corp.
>
> I want to be able pass this to a VirtualBox guest OS (WinXP) and have
> Ubuntu
> pretty much not see it or use it at all (so the guest can).  It WILL still
> have to be able to see the above because within the VirtualBox control
> screen I need to be able to pass that same ID along to the guest OS.
> (Yes,
> I'm using the VirtualBox "full tilt edition" with USB pass-through support
> as opposed to the open-source edition.)
>
> I've told NetworkManager to stop talking to the cellmodem, but that
> doesn't
> appear to be enough to leave it unlocked so the guest OS can get to it.
> In
> the guest XP machine, the Verizon software can see the cellmodem but can't
> power it up.
>
> Help?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jim
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