Universal Serial Bus (USB) establishes a connection between devices and a host computer.
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Installing Grub (2) on a USB flash drive
MultiBootISOs is a tool that let you install Grub on a USB flash drive. I really like it because it lets me boot from ISO files and let me put a bunch of ISOs on my USB and choose which one to boot.
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Automount USB drives with no GUI requirement (halevt replacement)
For minimal installations of Debian, I have been using halevt to enable automounting of USB drives. Halevt is reliable and requires no configuration aside from installing the package. Now, halevt has ...
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How to get my USB key to auto mount
I'm currently working in a command line only environment.
When I plug my USB key in, I see a new device file in /dev:
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sdi
sdi1
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If I simply sudo mount /dev/sdi1 /media/tmp, and umount it ...
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What happens when a USB drive is plugged in?
What is the flow of USB events from kernel space to user space? I get a popup on my desktop when I plug in a USB drive -- what is the sequence of events that leads from detecting the new USB drive to ...
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If I connect a physical device, how can I ever know which device file belongs to it?
Say I plug in several USB drives which don't get automatically mounted. How can I find out which device file belongs to which physical device, so I can mount it for example?
I'm running Mac OS X but ...
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How to run custom scripts upon USB device plug-in?
What is the state-of-the-art method for automatically executing custom scripts upon USB device plug-in under current Linux distributions like Debian/CentOS/Fedora?
For example if you want to ...
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How to re-mount a USB stick after unmounting from Nautilus without disconnecting it?
I find that in order to re-mount a USB stick, I have to physically disconnect it, and then re-connect it. How can I do this without such tiring physical action?
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How to be notified when a USB device was plugged?
My system have to auto-mount for usb devices, how can I be notified when a usb device is plugged? Where can I read more about?
I would like to treat that using shell script or C.
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How can I uniquely identify which device is on USB `hub 6-0:1.0: port 2`?
How can I uniquely identify which device is on USB hub 6-0:1.0: port 2?
I receive messages in my dmesg every now and then and I want the system to tell me which device is connected to that port.
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How to reconnect a logically disconnected USB device?
It is possible for a USB storage device to become logically disconnected: the device is still plugged in, but is invisible from the operating system (e.g. it's not listed under /proc/bus/usb). Maybe ...
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Monitoring USB traffic
Kernel version: 2.6.31-22
I wish to monitor the USB traffic to and from a device. I've searched, but different sites seem to give different information and I'm confused.
Some sites suggest that I ...
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Prevent claiming of novelty usb device by usbhid so I can control it with libusb?
I have a USB rocket launcher that I wish to experiment with through libusb. However, libusb cannot claim the interface; presumably because the output of usb-devices lists 'usbhid' as the driver for ...
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Distribution recommendation for USB flash disks
I'm a linux system administrator and dealing with big iron distributions like debian and redhat for a long time. I need a recommendation for a small distribution which I can install to USB flash disk. ...
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How to avoid powering down certain USB devices when a machine is suspended
I'd like to maintain power supply to a USB-powered drive when the system goes into suspend (AKA S3 or "suspend-to-RAM") mode.
Normally the power is cut while the machine is suspended, which causes it ...
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How do I access a USB serial port without an entry in /dev?
I have a USB to serial adapter based on the SiLabs CP2101 chipset. I'm trying to use it with Debian 5.0 Lenny (armel architecture).
I seem to be able to get the proper kernel module to recognize the ...
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USB Driver Compilation Error
I'm currently trying to compile a Linux USB UART driver, which is provided here:
http://www.exar.com/connectivity/uart-and-bridging-solutions/usb-uarts/xr21v1410
The driver consists of 2 header files ...
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Linux 2.6.32, busybox, Identify physical SD device
I have a USB card reader with two SD card interfaces and two USB ports (so it can also act as a USB hub) all on the same device. I am running an embedded Linux device that is unsupervised in its use ...
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unable to connect intex 3.5g modem in ubuntu 12.04
Can anyone help me out on connecting usb modem in ubuntu? Here are the steps i have followed, initially it is recognized as a storage device and the modprobe cmd does not create any impact on it
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PS/2 to USB port for keyboard gives “unable to enumerate USB device on port 5”
I got my hands on a Logitech Ultra X (Y-SX49) keyboard, with US key marks. The US key placement is much better than my Swedish native, at least for programmers, because there are much fewer shortcuts ...
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USB mount doesn't work on Centos 6.4
I have a problem. After an update, my USB drives are not mounted automatically and I'm unable to mount them manually...
The output of my fdisk -l command is:
Disk /dev/sdb: 15.8 GB, 15762194432 ...
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How to use one distro's live CD to install another distro?
I'm trying to install Mint Linux to a USB stick, but the Mint live CD doesn't fit on a normal CD and I don't have any DVDs available. The Ubuntu live CD does fit on a CD, so I want to use the Ubuntu ...
