usbutils-007
Introduction to USB Utils
The USB Utils package contains an
utility used to display information about USB buses in the system
and the devices connected to them.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.5
platform.
Package Information
USB Utils Dependencies
Required
libusb-1.0.18
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/usbutils
Installation of USB Utils
Install USB Utils by running the
following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr \
--disable-zlib \
--datadir=/usr/share/misc &&
make
This package does not come with a test suite.
Now, as the root user:
make install &&
mv -v /usr/sbin/update-usbids.sh /usr/sbin/update-usbids
Command Explanations
--disable-zlib: This stops USB Utils from installing a compressed
usb.ids alongside the uncompressed
one.
Configuring USB Utils
The usb.ids data file is constantly
being updated. To get a current version of this file, run
update-usbids as the
root user. This program requires
the Which-2.20 script or program to
find Lynx-2.8.8 or Wget-1.15 which are
used to download the most current file, and replace the existing
file in /usr/share/misc.
You may wish to add an entry to root's (or any other user who has write
privilege to /usr/share/misc) crontab
to automatically update the usb.ids
file periodically.
Contents
Installed Programs:
lsusb, update-usbids, usb-devices, and
usbhid-dump
Installed Libraries:
None
Installed Directories:
None
Short Descriptions
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lsusb
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is an utility for displaying information about all USB
buses in the system and all devices connected to them.
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update-usbids
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downloads the current version of the USB ID list.
Requires Lynx-2.8.8 or Wget-1.15.
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usb-devices
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is a shell script that displays details of USB buses and
devices connected to them. It is designed to be used if
/proc/bus/usb/devices is not available on your system.
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usbhid-dump
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is used to dump report descriptors and streams from HID
(human interface device) interfaces of USB devices.
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Last updated on 2014-02-17 15:16:31 -0800