CentOS - Dec 2007 - OT? Creative Zen player not registering as a USB device

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
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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

on 12/25/2007 7:19 PM MHR spake the following:
> 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
Many Zen's have a proprietary driver, not just a usb storage device.

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