Can someone explain the output from lsusb here?
PleegWat
pleegwat at telfort.nl
Fri Jul 3 16:26:45 UTC 2009
Fred Roller wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 22:46 +1000, Karl Auer wrote:
>> All the ports are USB 2.0/1.1
>> ports as far as I know, but that is an idea worth double-checking.
>>
>> Regards, K.
>
> Watch the logs live while you try plugging the devices in.
> i.e.
> watch "dmesg |tail -n 20"
>
> this will refresh every 2 seconds and allow you to watch the activity of
> the logs. Variation for other logs.
>
> watch "tail -n 20 /var/log/[somelog]"
Rather than `watch "tail ..."` I'd suggest `tail -f ...`, especially on
a terminal with scrollback. The -f flag causes tail to follow the file
as it grows. There doesn't seem to be a similar flag on dmesg though.
PleegWat
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