How To: List USB Device Info From The Terminal (lsusb)

lsusb‘ command for this one. This article should be both quick and easy.

lshw‘, ‘lscpu‘, and ‘lspci‘. Seeing as we’ve got a good thing going, we’ll go ahead and cover ‘lsusb’ this time. Like the rest, the function becomes evident by the name, and the man page describes it as thus:

[code]lsusb[/code]

[code]lsusb -t[/code]

[code]lsusb[/code]

Take a look at the output. For example, you might see something like this:

[code]Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0bda:8178 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8192CU 802.11n WLAN Adapter[/code]

So, using my example above, you end up with a command that looks like:

[code]lsusb -D /dev/bus/usb/001/005[/code]