Nomad II Driver/Utilities 0.8

Nomad II supports the Creative Nomad II, IIc and II MG under Linux running USB for file transfers and other operations.
By default, the ownership of the newly created device file for the Nomad II is owned by root, without group/other read+write permissions.
make nomadii setuid root; on startup, nomadii
detects it is running in this mode and changes the owner of the device file to the original user, and then immediately drops back to the user ID of the original user (in order to minimize the possibility of security issues). This can be made with a number of techniques:
use the devuid, devgid or devmode mount options for usbdevfs, either in your /etc/fstab file or located where the mount call for usbdevfs is made (/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit on RedHat 7.x); for example use devmode=0666 to open full access to all USB devices (with the attendant insecureness this creates). In a multi-user machine, setting up a group for USB would be the more secure option using this method.
locate and install the usb_perms daemon
use the hotplug package; this subsystem has good support for USB devices with user-level drivers such as this one with its usb.usermap launch method. The module launched by hotplug can be used to set ownerships or permissions on the device file as soon as the Nomad II is connected, and then even launch an xterm running a nomadii session. This is the most delicate of these methods to set up - sample instructions are given in the HOTPLUG file that comes with the source distribution.
Enhancements:
- Rename of utility to nomadii
- Availablility of RPM
- Full support of the Nomad II, IIc and II MG with latest firmware
- Autocorrection of bad data when getting files from the Nomad
- Much improved error detection and reporting
- Split of code into text front end and library
- Better name handling and progress reporting
- Updated support for nomadii-driver
- Better USB device permission options
- Added send/get methods
- Added support for multiple send, get and delete
- Hotplug documentation and scripts
- Many major and minor bug fixes