Thread: PRS-500 reverse engineering the Reader USB protocol
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Old 05-31-2007, 08:30 PM   #186
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Originally Posted by petersktang
I tried this release and got the following message under Fedora Core 6 linux-2.6.20-1.2952.fc6.
$ prs500 info
"Unable to find SONY Reader. Is it connected?"

After I login as root, it reports the device and version correctly.

Thanks
You don't necessarily have the rights to access USB using a linux account. Might be why you had this problem, and everything worked fine once logged as root (use sudo next time).
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