Forcing driver to device match

Question

I have a piece of usb hardware, for which I know the driver. However, the vendor id and product id do not match the VID, PID pair registered in the driver. Is there a way in lin

Answer 1

In case you want to make this change permanent and assign specific driver to device (VID, PID) you may find this answer useful.

For example create new file/etc/udev/rules.d/98-joystick.rules with content:

ACTION=="add", ATTRS{idVendor}=="1345", ATTRS{idProduct}=="6005", RUN+="/sbin/modprobe xpad" RUN+="/bin/sh -c 'echo 1345 6005 > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/xpad/new_id'"

Replace 1345 with your VID and 6005 with your PID.

Replace xpad with appropriate driver.

Run following command:

$ sudo udevadm control --reload

Unplug and plug your device back and check if the new driver is loaded.

Example shown here is for fixing driver issues with Speedlink Strike FX Gamepad (SL-6537-BK)