Universal Serial Bus (USB) establishes a connection between devices and a host computer.
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USB Hubs and Linux
I have found over the course of 3 different distros that USB hubs simply don't work "out of the box". Is there any advice out there that can help me get my USB hub working in Crunchbang?
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lsusb outputs “Illegal Instruction” - why?
I'm trying to get a 3G USB dongle to work on a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian Wheezy, using a script called sakis3g.
However, in trying to do this, I keep running into problems: when trying to connect ...
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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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How do I install Red Hat Linux 9.0 Shrike from a USB drive?
I have a desktop PC which does not have a CD drive and does not have access to the Internet or other networks.
I want to install Red Hat Linux 9.0 "Shrike" on it using a 8GB USB flash drive.
I have ...
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3 of 4 USB ports not working on CentOS 6.4
There seems to be a problem with my USB ports on my Lenovo IdeaPad Y580. On Windows 7 all four of them work just fine, but on CentOS 6.4 only one works. I have checked that the devices I used to test ...
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Trouble communicating with FTDI FT245RL on ttyUSB0. works fine on Win7x64
I purchased a Sainsmart 4 channel USB relay board which seems to be based on a FTDI FT245RL chip. I should be easy enough to use. when you plug it in it appears as a serial port (VCP). You send it ...
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Cannot boot from usb
I bought a new computer (Samsung NP900X4D) which came with Windows 8.
I want to install linux (Mint 14) but the computer lacks any optical drives, and so the only option (I'm aware of) is using a ...
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Why is USB not working in Linux when it works in UEFI/BIOS?
For background I have just built a new machine with modern hardware including:
AMD FX-8350
Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 motherboard
16GB RAM
NVidia GTX 650 Ti
Kingston SSD
Given that, I tried to install ...
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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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Resetting a USB cellular-modem?
I'm working on putting together a little Raspberry-Pi box which will connect to the net through a cellular-modem (like a Huawei E220, E1750, or E173). It needs to be able to sit there and run for ...
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Reading from USB serial port under Cygwin
I am actually using Cygwin, but it is my understanding that it responds to Unix commands so hopefully I am in the correct place.
I have an Arduino hooked up via USB to my LapTop for data reading.
I ...
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USB-Serial Driver(Exar Xr21v1414) Run Error
I'm currently trying to run the bellow driver in linux-3.8.3 on Exar xr21v1414
http://www.exar.com/connectivity/uart-and-bridging-solutions/usb-uarts/xr21v1410,
but when i install the driver ...
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Why doesn't this udev rule trigger upon removal of the device?
I have two mice, one which has an issue where the middle mouse button and button6 get triggered simultaneously. So I configured my ~/.Xmodmap to disable this button. At the same time, however, I ...
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How to retrieve sysfs devpath of a USB flash drive given its corresponding partition sysfs path?
I have a USB flash drive connected to a hub. Its storage device partition devpath in sysfs is /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:12.2/usb6/6-1/6-1.2/6-1.2:1.0/host10/target10:0:0/10:0:0:0/block/sdb/sdb1. I ...
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Cannot access HDD files through Linux Mint Live USB
I have valuable info on my Ubuntu partition, but it crashed, and I tried to get to it through Live USB with Mint 14, but it says it's read only. Can I make it writable too? So I can put it on my ...
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Using screen to connect to Cisco console
I am trying to configure a Cisco (small business 300) via serial port.
I read here:
http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/6130/use-screen-as-a-terminal-emulator-to-connect-to-serial-consoles
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Fixed udev rules for USB modems
On gentoo i have 10 USB modems and every of them has 3 interfaces /dev/ttyUSB0, 1, 2 and so on for each modem. Sometimes their postitions can change, so it is very difficult to work with them.
I'm ...
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MTS MBlaze 3G USB Dongle in Mint 14 Cinnamon
I recently installed Linux Mint 14 Cinnamon 64-bit along with Windows 7. I have a MTS Mblaze 3G USB dongle. This dongle has 2 modes i.e., 1X mode which gives less speed up—to 30 kbp/s and a ...
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Use an USB tethered phone as network adapter
I am running CentOS 6 and was able to tether my HTC phone using a proxy called proxoid . This allows me to redirect HTTP. But how do I redirect the entire TCP traffic, e.g. if I need to setup openvpn ...
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How to load kernel module in Chromium OS?
I've installed the Chromium Vanilla by Hexxeh to a USB drive, but I can't use it on my computer because it lacks the carl9170 driver, which is needed by my adapter (a D-Link DWA-160.)
I've managed to ...
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Attaching USB-Serial device with custom PID to ttyUSB0 on embedded
I'm attempting to get an FTDI USB-Serial device with a custom PID to automatically (or even manually) attach to ttyUSB%n, without much success. The device's normal VID/PID is 0403/6001. When ...
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Change value of USB “max_sectors” for an entire family of devices
I've been using Linux for a while, but only since I started using "recent" distros (ie.: anything non-Debian) I have started having I/O problems with most of my USB devices. Basically when trying to ...
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Using USB 3 controller with Linux 2.6.x
I have a laptop that has an USB controller and an SD card which I believe connected to USB3.
I need to do some development on a Linux version 2.6 which doesn't support USB3.
Can I use USB 3 ...
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How to get UUID for a USB drive?
I want to mount my USB to a mount point which holds the UUID name. But I don't know how to express this in a command line!
Can someone help me how to do it?
I have searched and found that I have to ...
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USB key not responding when inserted
I just attempted to create a USB key for Chrome OS. I followed the instructions found here. This is what I did:
1- Downloaded a .zip version of the build.
2- Extracted the .zip file which gave me a ...
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Flash disk USB Fedora installation reset counting
I have created a flash disk with pen drive Linux universal USB installer to install Fedora 18 on my system but after booting, a counter starts and then reset and never installation begin.
My system is ...
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How to bind USB device under a static name?
I have an arduino which sometimes gets bound to /dev/ttyUSB0 and other times to /dev/ttyUSB1 making my script fail.
I do not want to enumerate all the possibilities of where my device could be, but I ...
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What is the udev rule to allow specific thumb drive vendors?
How can I write a udev rule that whitelists specific vendors and doesn't allow other USB drives? Do I put it in /etc/udev/rules.d, or /lib/udev/rules.d? What command do I run to test if the rule is ...
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Impossible to mount USB stick
I've just installed Debian Sid on my computer but I cannot mount external USB drives as you can see in the image.
Mounting failed
Cannot mount "SENZATITOLO"
Not authorized
What should I ...
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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 ...
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Endless data loop from dev/ttyUSB while sending AT commands
I have problem sending AT commands to my USB modem.
At first I tried php-serial class, but when i was reading data, I got endless loop with strange data. Then I tried to debug problem and opened putty ...
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Mounting USB drive on 3G dongle
I've got an Huawei HiLink E303 USB G3-internet dongle that I'd like to use to connect to the internet. I'm using Arch Linux. According to this page, the Linux drivers are actually on the device and ...
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(Solved) Linux cdc_acm device - unexpected characters sent to USB device
I'm having trouble with unexpected characters being sent on a USB port with the cdc_acm driver. What makes this all the more perplexing is that the code runs fine on Ubuntu 12.04 (3.2 kernel) but ...
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USB_HID is not working
How do I get a usb keyboard to work? I have already selected and compiled the USB HID transport layer and I don't know what else to do.
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how to disable USB devices based on vendor id in Linux environment?
I want to disable usb devices based on vendor id in Linux environment. I want to allow only specific USB devices, based on vendor id.
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Getting keyboard to work in debian 6.0 in order to unlock root partition
I just installed Debian 6.0, encrypted / and now I'm trying to boot. When GRUB comes up, I select Debian, it loads the initrd and asks for the root password, however I can't enter anything, because ...
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Removing device from USB hub triggers udev event for removing hub
I have a udev rule to halt the system when a usb hub is removed:
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ACTION=="remove", ENV{ID_VENDOR_ID}="050d", ENV{ID_MODEL_ID}="0237", RUN+="/sbin/halt"
Unfortunately, this also ...
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Why do I not seem to have hidraw options on my system, and how can I fix my usb devices?
Starting today, I noticed a few problems with my system. USB devices, including the internal ones such as microphones, don't seem to be working at all. I first noticed when my keyboard and mouse ...
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How to install a printer that is connected via an USB-to-Parallel-Port adapter?
I'm running Sabayon Linux (x86_64).
$ uname -a
Linux qdoe 3.7.0-sabayon #1 SMP Thu Dec 20 07:12:55 UTC 2012 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3930K CPU @ 3.20GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
I have a HP ...
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Query USB current
How can I obtain information about the amount of current negotiated by a device attached to a USB port?
I am looking for information similar to this presented by OS X in terms of current available ...
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Compile Linux Kernel w/ Dynamically (Un)loadable usbserial Module
I've attempted to install drivers for an FPGA device, but require that I remove the usbserial module. This happens to be impossible because usbserial is a built-in module. It was suggested that I ...
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Removing builtin modules in Linux
I'm currently attempting to remove the usbserial module in order to install a new driver module. When I attempt to remove the module I get the following issue:
[root@localhost xr21v141x-lnx-3.0-pak]# ...
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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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How to find the device is connected to which usb hub in linux OS? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I uniquely identify which device is on USB `hub 6-0:1.0: port 2`?
I connected three USB hub in a system and I connected different devices in each hub. How I can ...
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Installing Debian on USB
From my Ubuntu, I want to create a bootable Debian USB. I tried to install Debian with debootstrap. A brief list of commands is
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
debootstrap sid /mnt http://ftp.debian.org/debian
...
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Find the Information of USB Devices In C++ [closed]
I need to list existing USB hub and the devices connected in the hub using my C++ program.
I can able to print the USB Hub and devices connected in hub from terminal using the commands
lsusb
lsusb ...
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Install Arch(Bang) - Create Usb - Uefi
I am pretty new to Linux and want to install ArchBang-Linux, but I fail at creating a bootable USB-Stick.
Can someone explain this procedure to me in a little more detail?
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Two usb wifi adapaters, only wlan0 appears, how to get wlan1?
I'm attempting to connect two wifi usb dongles to a debian system, one is to connect to a local lan, the other I plan to use in adhoc mode to connect to a specific device. You could look at this as an ...
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full-featured WLAN USB adaptor
I am searching for a WLAN USB adaptor that can be used as an Access Point as well as a mere client and in an AdHoc setup. It should support IEEE 802.11n and transmit rather fast (300Mbps).
As I ...
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What kind of bad things can happen if I disable APIC (not to be confused with ACPI)?
I'm dealing with some really old point-of-sale machines that run a point-of-sale flavour of SuSE 9. It turns out that its kernel is affected by an old bug that makes USB 2.0 functionality unstable ...
