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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Watch USB connections vendor id, product id, revision
I'd like to simply watch all devices added and removed from my system and view their USB vendor ID, product ID, and revision and other relevant information. How can I do this in Linux? Is there a ...
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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 ...
