Universal Serial Bus (USB)

requirements in Kernel 2.6:

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requirements in Kernel < 2.6:

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methods to see if a device (like mouse) is properly connected:

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Desktop

A desktop user interface to ["USBStorage"].

troubleshooting:

faq:

Is there a way to have a usb key always assigned to /dev/sda and the usb disk to /dev/sdb?

It is often useful to have a canonical name for your USB devices. This is easy to set up using udev. The following example is a modified /etc/udev/hal.rules that creates symlinks from /dev/mykey to /dev/sd*1 and from /dev/myusbdisk to /dev/sd*1, regardless the order they got plugged in. Only the first 4 uncommented lines have been added to the default configuration. You will need to modify the SYSFS{model}="<name>" according to the entries you find in /sys/bus/scsi/devices/*/model.

/etc/udev/hal.rules

        # put removable IDE/SCSI devices into the hal group instead of 'disk'
        BUS="scsi", KERNEL="sd[a-z]*1", SYSFS{model}="JUMPDRIVE", SYMLINK="mykey", \
                PROGRAM="/etc/udev/scripts/device-removable.sh %k", RESULT="1", NAME="%k", MODE="0640", GROUP="hal"
        BUS="scsi", KERNEL="sd[a-z]*1", SYSFS{model}="["SP1604N"]", SYMLINK="myusbdisk", \
                PROGRAM="/etc/udev/scripts/device-removable.sh %k", RESULT="1", NAME="%k", MODE="0640", GROUP="hal"
        BUS="scsi",KERNEL="sd[a-z]*", PROGRAM="/etc/udev/scripts/device-removable.sh %k", RESULT="1", NAME="%k", MODE="0640", GROUP="hal"
        # BUS="ide", KERNEL="hd[a-z]*", PROGRAM="/etc/udev/scripts/device-removable.sh %k", RESULT="1", NAME="%k", MODE="0640", GROUP="hal"
        BUS="usb", KERNEL="ub[a-z]*", NAME="%k", MODE="0640", GROUP="hal"

'tail -f /var/log/syslog' is useful to debug these new udev rules.

you can then add the following lines in your fstab:

        /dev/mykey      /media/key      auto    rw,user         0       0
        /dev/myusbdisk  /media/disk     auto    rw,user         0       0

Hardware Devices:

["USBStorageDevice"].
["USBDrive"]
USB ["Keydrive"] : you can put debian on a USB keydrive and boot it directly from the memory stick, using DebianInstaller.
You can use ["usbmount"] to automatically mount ["USBStorageDevice"] when they are plugged in.

General and Misc. info:

?WikiPedia: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Serial_Bus
[http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/devices.php Linux USB devices].
?BootingFromFloppyToUsb
["USBCamera"]
["USBDrive"]
["USBKey"]
["USBKeyBootable"]
["USBKeyDistro"]
["USBMouseConfig"]
["USBStorage"]
["USBStorageDevice"]
?UniversalSerialBus