Wii portal of power issues

The thing compiled but i cant detect the wii swapforce portal. when I do ./editor -p -o WHY.bin
it just spouts out

Reading Skylander

1256:26716
7531:2
7531:1
5168:336
0007:0006:00
7531:1
7531:1
3034:33138
7531:2
7247:101
0005:0002:00
7531:1
16700:8453
0002:0002:00
7531:1
7531:1
1256:26716
7531:2
7531:1
5168:336
0007:0006:00
7531:1
7531:1
3034:33138
7531:2
7247:101
7531:1
16700:8453
7531:1
7531:1
Cannot Find Portal USB.

And When I run as root i get

Reading Skylander

7531:2
7531:1
5168:336
0007:0008:00
7531:1
7531:1
3034:33138
7531:2
7247:101
0005:0002:00
7531:1
16700:8453
0002:0002:00
7531:1
7531:1
7531:2
7531:1
5168:336
0007:0008:00
7531:1
7531:1
3034:33138
7531:2
7247:101
7531:1
16700:8453
7531:1
7531:1
Unable to write to Portal.

does this mean anything?

[Chaostheorie]

I have the same issue at Ubuntu 18.04 with g++ 8.3.0