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Universal Serial Bus (USB) establishes a connection between devices and a host computer.

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command to determine ports of a device (like /dev/ttyUSB0)

I have a question regarding the ports in Linux. If I connect my device via USB and want to check its port I can't do it using the command lsusb, which only specifies bus number and device number on this bus: [ziga@Ziga-PC ~]$ lsusb Bus 003 Device…
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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'd rather have it be bound somewhere static, e.g.…
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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 this can happen to other kinds of USB or other…
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How to disable USB autosuspend on kernel 3.7.10 or above?

I've updated my HTPC from kernel 3.7.10 to 3.10.7 and it seems CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND is now gone from the kernel options and included in PM. The main problem I'm facing is that I have an external HDD and when suspending and waking up the HTPC, it…
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How do I transfer files between Android and Linux over USB?

I want to copy some movie files from Linux to my HTC One SV Android phone (not rooted). In Windows, my phone mount its internal and SD-card volumes automatically when I plug it in, allowing me to transfer files. In Linux Mint 13 Mate, I always get…
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How to read/write to tty* device?

I have a device that sends information over USB to my computer. Arch Linux sets up this device by creating a file named ttyUSB0 in /dev/. I have been using GTKterm to receive this incoming information and display it in an emulated terminal…
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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 automatically mount/copy some files/umount a USB mass…
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Gnome, nautilus copy files to USB stops at 100% or near

I had similar issues before but i don't remember how i solved it. When i try to copy something to USB stick, with FAT, it stops near the end, sometimes at 100%. And of course, when i transfer the memory stick somewhere else, it doesn't contain…
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Turning off power to usb port. Or turn off power to entire usb subsystem

I have a usb lamp which I specifically bought in order to turn it off programmatically at a certain time, thus I need to remove the power to its usb port. I believe I have a usb-hub at usb6. The lamp is connected to one of the ports in this…
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How to automatically mount an USB device on plugin-time on an already running system?

I know how to use /etc/fstab to automatically mount devices on boot or when doing sudo mount -a, which works perfectly fine. For example, here is my current line for my device UUID=B864-497A /media/usbstick vfat…
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Get power consumption of a USB device

Is there a way to check how much power a USB device requires? Why do I need this? I need to connect an LTE USB stick to my Raspberry Pi, and don't know how much power it needs. We got it quite easily on Windows, but haven't found a way to do it on…
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Make a computer act as a virtual USB device for other equipments

Some applications simulate a virtual USB or CD Rom drive as if a USB drive is attached to the computer. Is there any configuration or application that provides a virtual USB drive, not for the the operating system itself, but for other equipments…
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How can I enable access to USB devices within VirtualBox guests?

I cannot see any USB devices within my VirtualBox guest VMs from my host. How do I enable access for my guest VMs?                                
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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 various versions of Linux on the SSD and was met…
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How to assign USB driver to device

This question is two-fold: First, how do you manually detach a driver from a USB device and attach a different one? For example, I have a device that when connected automatically uses the usb-storage driver. usbview output Vendor Id: xxxx Product…
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