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windows 7 not detecting USB mobile devices

  • 21-11-2010 01:58PM
    #1
    jon1981
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,349 ✭✭✭


    HI,
    I recently installed VMWARE on my laptop and ever since ive done this i cannot get windows to detect my mobile broadband devices, can anyone offer some guidance to what might be the problem?

    thanks
    Jon


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  • #2
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 96,078 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Virtualbox ( a totally different product to VMware ) comes in two flavours

    the totally free one, (which in Ubuntu you install from the built in software centres,) which has NO pass through USB support

    the other version has some closed source and so it has to be downloaded from www.virtualbox.org (again totally free) but it does offer a USB port to the guest OS, by the simple expedient of hijacking one of the Host's USB ports

    at a guess VMware is doing something similar - you could try a different USB port but on older versions of windows 3G dongles tended to like the port they were first seen on

    or it could be driver conflicts


  • #3
    jon1981
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,349 ✭✭✭jon1981


    yeah i gathered VMWare was doing that, i tried all the usb ports and nothing. So i uninstalled it and it worked...well it got me past that hurdle and on to the next.


  • #4
    calistro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 544 ✭✭✭calistro


    Hi, I'm running Windows 7 for the last year trouble free until yesterday when the 2 USB devices that have worked fine all year won't work anymore. One is a Key-fob mini cam and the other is a Garmin Edge 305. I've tested the ports which are fine but windows is telling me that it cannot find the drivers.
    As I said, these were all working fine and they are actually charging from the USB ports but thats it. I uninstalled and reinstalled the Garmin and also ran windows update but with no success.
    Has anyone come across this before?


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