USB troubles

[Blake Thornton]

>>          - it does not work with jpilot preferences selected "usb:".
>>         - If I modprobe visor (or turn off the blacklist visor
>> in /etc/modprobe.d), the
>> devices /dev/ttyUSB0 and /dev/ttyUSB1 appear.
>
> You should be aware that these alternatives use two completely different
> USB systems. The first (usb:) interfaces to a user-level library called
> libusb, while the second is a kernel module. The library is actually
> more modern and in my experience more functional and faster, so you
> might want to focus on getting that to work.

Thank you for your reply.  I do realize this, but clearly I don't know 
enough to make either option work correctly.  I would love to get libusb 
working---can someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks!