[CentOS] OT? Creative Zen player not registering as a USB device

Shawn Everett shawn at tandac.com
Wed Dec 26 06:23:50 UTC 2007


On Tuesday 25 December 2007, MHR wrote:
> I plugged my son's new (Christmas) Zen V player into my CentOS 5.1 box
> and it doesn't register as a device that the system can see or mount.
>
> If I lsusb, it shows up as bus 2, device 8, but there is no
> corresponding /dev/??? device for it, so the system can't get at it.
>
> (I tried my flash drive in the same USB port and it works fine, so it's
> not the hardware.)
>
> How do I get around this?
>
> Thanks.
>
> mhr

You might try installing and running gnomad.

I have a fairly old Creative Nomad Zen Extra and it works great when using 
gnomad.

Shawn



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