Greaseweazle Problems

[Vorlon]

I purchased a Greaseweazle to work on old floppy disks. But I'm having trouble getting the thing to work with Linux.

I've installed the greaseweazle program as per instructions at https://github.com/keirf/greaseweazle/wiki/Software-Installation.

The program executes, but will not see the greaseweazle, giving a "Device: Not found" error.

Oddly, doing a "lsusb" easily finds the device "Bus 002 Device 009: ID 1209:4d69 Generic Greaseweazle"

It's also listed in dmesg:
[108041.327479] usb 2-2: new full-speed USB device number 9 using xhci_hcd
[108041.454528] usb 2-2: New USB device found, idVendor=1209, idProduct=4d69, bcdDevice= 1.00
[108041.454537] usb 2-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[108041.454541] usb 2-2: Product: Greaseweazle
[108041.454543] usb 2-2: Manufacturer: Keir Fraser
[108041.454546] usb 2-2: SerialNumber: GWB0BD79CF5976C01007991705


I've tested the software under windows, and it finds it just fine.

I'm using a regular amd64 system, but I have compiled my own monolithic kernel. As far as I can tell, I've included all the relevant floppy kernel modules.

I can continue to use a windows system for my floppy work, but yech!! I';d really like to get this to work in Gentoo.

The greaseweazle program runs under pip in python, and maybe that's messing something up?

I'm running as root, so this shouldn't be a permissions problem.

Anybody got any suggestions for where else to look?

TIA!!
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