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lsusb is a command on Unix-like operating systems that prints detailed information about USB buses and devices.

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Tool to list USB devices as tree in shell?

Is there any tool which lists the controller, hubs and devices of USB subsystem in their tree structure at the shell? lsusb lists flatly and does not show all the details. usbview has a GUI, but shows the tree structure and all details of the…
Ashwin Nanjappa
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How do you interpret the lsusb output?

What does the lsusb output mean? dodohjk@dodohjk-PC:~$ lsusb Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root…
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Does WSL2 Support lsusb?

I am trying to run lsusb commands on wsl2 with Ubuntu 20.04, no output is showing While lsusb -V command gives output- lsusb (usbutils) 012 lsusb -t command gives output- /sys/bus/usb/devices: No such file or directory
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USB stick not recognized by fdisk

My USB stick got corrupted. I am not even able to format it as it is not found properly by my OS (Ubuntu 16.04). What I tried: It is found by neither fdisk -l, lsblk nor gparted. It is shown by lsusb: > lsusb | grep Kingston Bus 004 Device 016: ID…
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Why does lsusb show devices connected to a USB 3 port as connected to USB2 root hub?

I'm running Ubuntu on a Dell Chromebook 11, which has two USB 3 ports, and an SD card reader. I was trying to establish whether the SD card reader would be capable of USB 3 speeds (and thus whether it's worth buying a 130MB/s SD card), but I can't…
Marcos Scriven
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Bluetooth: how to solve "not enough free handles to register service" error?

Since a couple of weeks I'm having an annoying problem. The connection switch in bluetooth is greyed out: So in order to re-establish a connection, I have to re-pair the devices (a bluetooth speaker in this case). Even this takes a couple of tries…
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lsusb - where device description comes from

For one of my attached USB devices (2773:0104) I see no description in lsusb command output: user@Thinkpad-Laptop:~/binaries$ lsusb Bus 008 Device 002: ID 0a5c:217f Broadcom Corp. Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus…
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USB 3.0 memory stick fails with "SEL for device-initiated U2 failed"

This is a Kingston Data Traveler Ultimate G3 memory stick. Device works fine on Windows (same hardware), but it doesn't show up in lsusb on an Ubtuntu 16.10 with Kernel 4.4.0. dmesg shows the problem: dmesg | grep -i usb [63864.126086] usb 2-3.1:…
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lsusb is not working on Ubuntu?

I have an Ubuntu server version (14.04 up to date LTS). I mostly use this machine over SSH. Yesterday I typed in lsusb and the machine gave me the following error: unable to initialize libusb: -99 I searched on the web, but did not get any answers…
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lsusb finds flash drive, fdisk doesn't

I have a Kingston 64gb USB flashdrive that isn't working. When I use the command lsusb I get the following: ' Bus 002 Device 021: ID 0951:1665 Kingston Technology Digital DataTraveler SE9 64GB So it finds my Kingston flasdrive. Searching learned me…
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where does lsusb -t get its data from?

I want to the file from which the command lsusb -t retrieves the data. I am curious to see where this is stored. and can anyone also tell that what can do with device id that displays in fdisk -l?
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Built-in webcam not detected on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

I'm having trouble getting my built-in webcam to work. I want to understand more about how drivers work and how a built-in webcam can be detected in the terminal or found. Here is my lsusb output: Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp.…
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USB devices not detected

None of them seem to show up in lsusb. Neither my mouse nor any USB drives. Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:8000 Intel Corp. Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root…
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Determining USB device port

lsusb | grep UART returns: Bus 001 Device 006: ID 10c4:ea60 Cygnal Integrated Products, Inc. CP210x UART Bridge / myAVR mySmartUSB light How can I confirm that the device is at: /dev/ttyUSB0 without unplugging the USB device? ls /dev/tty* | grep…
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lsusb output has me scratching my head

I don't know if this is normal or not but I have an android device connected via USB In the charge-only mode the output of the lsusb command shows the vendor/product id as 0bb4:0ca3 But when I enable usb tethering on the android device, the output…
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