Hi all,

I remastered 12-12-2002 Knoppix ISO to include vmware.
The guest OS in my case is windows 98 sitting on Transcend JetFlash (USB storage). And it is correctly recognised and mounted during boot-up. But when I try to boot-up the Virtual machine, it takes really long to start reading from the USB flash. I have inclded the kernel log for that, seems like something is timing out. How can I fix this problem.

Here is the output of
cat /proc/kmsg

<7>/dev/vmnet: open called by PID 453 (vmnet-bridge)
<7>/dev/vmnet: hub 0 does not exist, allocating memory.
<7>/dev/vmnet: port on hub 0 successfully opened
<7>bridge-eth0: up
<7>bridge-eth0: attached
<7>/dev/vmnet: open called by PID 476 (vmnet-natd)
<7>/dev/vmnet: hub 8 does not exist, allocating memory.
<7>/dev/vmnet: port on hub 8 successfully opened
<6>[drm] AGP 0.99 on Intel i845 @ 0xe0000000 64MB
<6>[drm] Initialized radeon 1.1.1 20010405 on minor 0
<7>/dev/vmnet: open called by PID 815 (vmnet-netifup)
<7>/dev/vmnet: port on hub 8 successfully opened
<7>/dev/vmnet: open called by PID 816 (vmnet-netifup)
<7>/dev/vmnet: hub 1 does not exist, allocating memory.
<7>/dev/vmnet: port on hub 1 successfully opened
<4>usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
<4>usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
<4>usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
<4>usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
<4>usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
<4>usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
<4>usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
<7>usbdevfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed dev 2 rqt 128 rq 6 len 4 ret -110
<4>usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
<4>usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
<7>/dev/vmnet: open called by PID 1040 (vmware)
<5>bridge-eth0: set IFF_PROMISC
<7>/dev/vmnet: port on hub 0 successfully opened
<4>usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
<4>usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
<4>usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
<4>usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout

And from the vmware.log file: the following lines show whats
happennig during the two minute of inactivity.

Mar 12 10:23:46: VMX|USB: Initializing UHCI host controller
Mar 12 10:23:46: VMX|USB: Initializing USB Generic backend
Mar 12 10:25:50: VMX|USBGL: CONTROL failed -1:110:Connection timed out


Thanks in advance
Arvind