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Old 05-16-2008, 05:48 AM   #1
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Question reading data from USB ports

Does anyone know what the command is that tells you what devices are connected to your usb ports. Or what man or info page It is on?
 
Old 05-16-2008, 06:59 AM   #2
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lsusb? lshw? 'find /sys/bus/usb/devices/ | while read dir; do find $dir/ -name product -o -iname id\* | xargs cat -v|xargs; done'?
 
Old 05-17-2008, 05:29 AM   #3
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Thanks for that. for some reason of Fedora 8 it seams to be /sbin/lsusb
 
  


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