Questions tagged [lsusb]
Questions pertaining to lsusb, a utility for displaying information about USB buses in the system and the devices connected to them. Use this tag for questions about the lsusb command itself or questions about using the utility. Don’t use it for questions which feature lsusb output but aren’t about lsusb itself.
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USB to ethernet adapter not in lsusb (via thoundbolt port)
So I am having a strange problem. Short story is, I have a Lenovo monitor P32P-30 which has a USB to Ethernet adapter, so I connect my laptop (Yoga 71i 12700h) to this monitor via thunderbolt port, my ...
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What are those other usb root_hubs on my system
I have a brand new framework 16 laptop and was wandering if i could route a certain usb controller to a VM for use with a music software only available under Windows (So a Linux host system and a ...
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Is it possible to programmatically identify the number of physical USB ports on a Lenovo ThinkCentre?
I have several Lenovo machines with varying numbers of physical USB ports. I need to programmatically identify the number of physical USB ports on each machine. The operating system installed is Linux....
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How to find USB Storage device PATH based on serial number?
If I find a serial number in /var/log/dmesg e.g SerialNumber: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx. How can I find the device and the path to this device?
Do I need to enable the kernel module usb-storage? What will that ...
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How to disconnect and reconnect USB devices on the command line?
I want to find out what gnome-disk is doing, how to do the same on the command line and how to undo whatever gnome-disk does. (It can not undo all it does itself.)
I have already experimented a little ...
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How to detect USB 4.0 on Linux?
I've bought this Lenovo laptop https://www.lenovo.com/gb/en/p/laptops/legion-laptops/legion-slim-series-laptops/lenovo-legion-slim-7-gen-8-(16-inch-amd)/len101g0029#tech_specs that is supposed to ...
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understanding the output of lsusb in relation to motherboard chipset
I have a motherboard with Intel H97 chipset. The chipset supports maximum of eight USB 2.0 ports and maximum of six USB 3.0 ports. According to motherboard manual, it has two USB 2.0 ports and four ...
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When looking at dmesg for USB devices, what's the difference between "New USB device found" and "New USB device strings"?
I am trying to connect a MicroSemi FlashPro 4 to my Linux system. When I plug it in, dmesg shows:
[13728.408610] usb 11-1: New USB device found, idVendor=1514, idProduct=2006, bcdDevice= 0.00
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my usb hard drive is only showing up in lsusb
I have a 500GB WD My Passport Hard Drive And it doesn't show up on my computer, Which is running arch linux. i've tried searching for solutions, however most of them are only if the drive dosen't show ...
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How can USB list become unaccessible to non root users at some point?
I'm using a Raspberry Pi4 device. We plug a USB HUB connected to 2 USB devices (a Fluigent pressure controller and a FTDI-based home made board controller).
After booting, I run lsusb, it lists many ...
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How to know which device are broken?
Other than plugging out one by one, I got spammed periodically something like this (every 5 minutes or so) on dmesg -w :
[766815.453149] usb usb4-port4: Cannot enable. Maybe the USB cable is bad?
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Conflict with multiple SDcard readers of the same brand connected at the same time
I have some Lexar UHS-II card readers (I believe the model is LRWM05U-7000), and when I connect more than one I realize some operations read/write from/to the wrong reader. Some apps do not even ...
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Forcing desired vendor:product IDs onto a USB device
My USB device (a OnePlus 10T smartphone) connected to a CentOS 7 server occasionally shows up with "wrong" (Google's) vendor:product IDs in lsusb output upon reboot:
Bus 002 Device 003: ID ...
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Issues mapping USB device to VM
I need to map my USB device (a OnePlus 10T smartphone) connected to a CentOS 7 server to a VM on it. It works fine when I do it in virt-manager GUI, but closing the VM window in the GUI immediately ...
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Mapping USB device to fixed bus/device #
Whenever I reconnect my USB device (a OnePlus 10T smartphone) to a CentOS 7 server or reboot it its device # on the bus changes as can be seen here:
Before: Bus 002 Device 052: ID 22d9:2765 OPPO ...
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How can I find out if the USB-C port on my laptop has video output (for adapter USB-C - HDMI)?
I have tried to use a hub with hdmi port that connects to the USB-C port of my computer but this one doesn't work.
Checking other similar threads on Internet (and here), I see that the problem is ...
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USB Drive showing in lsusb & dmesg but not in lsblk or fdisk
I have this USB Drive that i'm trying to fix,.
When I plug it, dmesg shows the following :
[83630.997986] usb 1-10: new high-speed USB device number 12 using xhci_hcd
[83631.146553] usb 1-10: New USB ...
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USB Device was working fine, now not, detected, but nothing
I've got an edimax wi-fi ac600 that I've been using for the Bluetooth LE side for a while, but it seems that after an OS update (perhaps), it is no longer functioning.
I can see the device if I do ...
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USB Bus sometimes not listed in lsusb
I have a problem with my APU4D4. It has 3 onboard USB bus, that we use for internal LTE and WLAN card, and two external USB bus. Sometime the two external bus are not detected and do not show up in ...
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Why isn't my CH341a Device Getting Assigned a Device Path (/dev/ttyUSB0)
I have a CH341a Programmer and when I plug it into a usb port everything seems to be working except it doesn't get assigned to a Device Path (eg /dev/ttyUSB0).
Does anyone have any clue as to why this ...
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Pass undetected USB device to QEMU
I have a CP Plus attendance reader that I want to pass to Windows virtual machine. When I connect the device. I get the following message in dmesg
[ 372.884498] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device ...
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How to get the latest usb.ids when update-usbids no longer exists?
I had to move from Debian Jessie to Buster. The script that runs to create a small custom boot disc runs update-usbids to get the latest files to copy over to the build. However it now says update-...
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Restart a USB that gone down in debian9
I have a small linux test box that has one fancy usb lan gigabit adapter on it.
This adapter is connected first with a 4 port usb3 hub then to the machine.
machine -> usb3 4port hub -> lan ...
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Remap USB device default productId from udev rule
I have a device which is being assigned the productId of 1713 by modalias:
$ lsusb -s 001:008
Bus 001 Device 008: ID 1e71:1713 NZXT NZXT USB Device
$ lsusb -t | grep "Dev 8"
|__ Port 12:...
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help using bind/unbind to power on/off USB drive
I'm trying to power on/off an USB drive using bind/unbind command following this post, can someone please point me to the right direction where to find tutorial/explanation on bind/unbind usb drive (...
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Raspberry Pi doesn't recognize HP PSC 750xi Scanner
I posted this to raspberrypi.stackexchange yesterday with no responses and only 4 views, so I'm reposting and expanding the original post here to reach a wider/different audience.
I have an old Pi-3 ...
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How to access files in USB in linux
I'm using Ubuntu 20.04, recently (almost a week ago) I upgraded my kernel from 5.11.0 to 5.14.0 and after that I can't access any USB drivers.
The system recognises my USBs since when I run lsusb it ...
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PXN-0082 controller - xinput does not see but lsusb does - how to connect
I have an arcade controller I bought so my dying dad can play old school games.
but it does not show up under xinput, where it does show up under lsusb
Bus 003 Device 021: ID 0079:187c DragonRise Inc. ...
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Are there any desktops (intel or amd) or pci-e cards that can support more than 16 USB devices per port?
I have a custom device from a manufacture that creates 32 ttyUSB devices. But this doesn't work with pc usb's controller because this generates error "not enough host controller resources for new ...
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Problem with ntfs-3g in Linux Mint 20 (Ulyana)?
I really need to ask this as this has been very frustrating for me for the entire week.
I have a 2 TB external hard drive (Transcend 25H3) that I'm using to back up my data in Linux Mint 20 (Ulyana). ...
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USB reset using lsusb output
I have a USB device that I wish to reset automatically, there are two USB devices currently, but at times there may be more.
[user1@gs10 devt]$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation ...
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List USB devices (with more details than lsusb)
I've not been able to get the same information from lsusb as I can extract from the journal (system-log).
This is from the system-log:
Jun 08 12:23:04 SRV01 kernel: usb 1-5: new low-speed USB device ...
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USB port stops working shortly after bootup
I am very new to Linux. I have recently installed Manjaro on my PC. The installation is on a separate SSD to my Windows installation. When I boot up, my mouse (Logitech g403) works fine for ...
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lsusb: can't get debug descriptor: Resource temporarily unavailable
I'm unable to get Report Descriptors for my usb device using lsusb -v.
I'm running it as root but I'm still only getting:
Report Descriptors:
** UNAVAILABLE **
My USB devices ...
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USB-Stick not recognizable by fdisk -l [closed]
I have a USB-Stick, that does not get properly recognized. In lsusb I get the following entry:
Bus 001 Device 015: ID ffff:1201
However in fdisk -l I don't see the stick as a option. It is also not ...
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External SSD stopped being recognized - is it dead?
I have an external SSD drive that I use for backup, plugged into a Raspberry Pi and always on. After a couple of forced reboots (problem with the Raspberry Pi power source), the external SSD stopped ...
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Why USB ports are not working on Linux mint 19.3?
I installed Linux mint on an old ASUS laptop. My problem is that USB mouse and USB keyboard are not working. I'm sure that the mouse is getting power because its light is working. I tried to lsusb but ...
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inserting and removing USB 3.x flash drive "fixes" USB 3.2 SSD speeds (was running at 2.0 speeds before)
I recently purchased a SanDisk 2TB Extreme PRO Portable SSD (model SDSSDE81-2t00). Upon plugging it into my Linux machine to perform a backup, I noticed it was running slowly. After some tests with dd ...
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Can't locate USB devices
I'm currently playing with USB to learn more about it.
I used lsusb to display infos about USB buses and devices of my system. Knowing that basically everything is either a file of a directory on ...
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Identify if an usb pendrive has been plugged
I want to reliably and thoroughly identify that a usb pendrive has been connected. I'm using a reduced version¹ of Debian Buster packed in a live ISO image running in VirtualBox.
The process of ...
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How do I deterimine if (and which) USB ports share bandwidth?
I've read that in many cases, the motherboard basically acts as a USB hub. So if you have two 10gbps USB ports, and you try to transfer files over both, you won't go over 10gbps between both of them.
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How to pass through USB device to guest VM? What are "hostaddr", "hostport" etc? [duplicate]
I have the following on the host machine
$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0403:6001 Future Technology Devices International, Ltd FT232 USB-...
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Get USB device tree without lsusb
I have a USB device and would like to see what it's parent device is, i.e. which hub it is connected to. The reason is that I'm debugging an issue with sleep mode. However, this is on an embedded ...
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Linux doesn't (re)detect devices connected to USB hub over USB type C
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I just bought a new widescreen monitor (Dell Ultrasharp U4919DW) and I use it in split screen mode where one one side my work laptop is connected with DP and on the other side my ...
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lsusb | grep | Awk command is cutting off the first result
I am trying to run a usbreset program against lsusb which has several devices with the same device identifier.
I run lsusb to list the devices, and add a | grep [identifer] to only list the devices ...
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USB Stick shown in lsusb but not in lsblk
I was trying to format an usb key with mkfs.ntfs to use it on windows.
When it reaches 80%, I got an error (don't remember it exactly) so I tried to remove the key and put it back.
But the key didn't ...
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Unable to enumerate USB device - unknown device: how to find out device that odes not show in lsusb?
I have a hardware product which sends a signal to an LCD display. The hardware box (unknown chip set) has an USB-A outlet and connects to a USB-B outlet on an LCD-display. The LCD display shows ...
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lsusb listing the device but not accessible on serial port
I connected a device using USB port. The device drivers are installed. I would like to access it from serial port.
Using lsusb it lists the device as:
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 106f:0003 ...
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How can I derive block device information using the output of lsusb
I am building a script that will let the user select a USB disk as a backup target. The idea is to create a partition spanning the entire device. lsusb gives the vendor ID and name, which I intend to ...
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Is there a limit to the number of FTDI connections on Debian 9?
I have a Debian 9 box, and if I plug in 1 of my devices, its UART shows up in both lsusb and in the output of ls /sys/bus/usb-serial/devices/.
When I attach 2, the 2nd one always shows up.
But for ...
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