How do I clear system detection of sole detected USB device?
I'd like to know if there's some way to clear whatever-in-the-system so that another plugged in USB device is detected by my system.
When I bought this used, about-8-yrs.-old IBM desktop tower a little over 1 yr. ago, it came with WinXP. I briefly tested things with the WinXP: there was no problem with the system detecting one or more plugged in USB devices. Then I wiped the WinXP and also updated the BIOS.
After doing the above, I installed MEPIS 11 (32 bit) as the sole OS. But there was now the problem that the system would detect a plugged in USB device only if I ran lsusb in console. Doing that wakes up the system and the USB device is useful to me. However, if I want to use a 2nd USB device while the first one is still plugged in, running lsusb only shows the first one plugged in. In order to use a different USB device, I have to reboot and then run lsusb in console.
Is there something that I can clear (with some command perhaps) so that I won't have to reboot the computer in order to use another USB device?
[Incidentally, I never was able to find out why my system won't automatically detect a plugged-in USB device.]
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