Questions tagged [usb]
USB is an acronym for Universal Serial Bus. The current USB standard is USB 3.0, which supports transfer speeds of up to 625 MB/s. USB devices are plug-and-play.
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How to configure the default automount location?
I recently upgraded from Mint 12 to Ubuntu 12.10 + Cinnamon. I have an external usb drive that when I plug it in, automatically mounts to /media/[username]/Backup/. Thing is, under Mint, it didn't ...
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"dd: /dev/disk4: Permission denied" error when making LiveUSB on Mac OS X
I'm following the steps in How to create a bootable USB stick on OS X to install Ubuntu on a USB stick, and I keep getting the error:
dd: /dev/disk4: Permission denied
when I try to run step 8, even ...
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How to automatically mount usb flash drive at startup
I need to mount usb flash drive to automatically during OS startup also tried
mount /dev/sdb2 /media
but after rebooting not able to see mounted drive please suggest.
lsusb
Bus 001 Device 003: ID ...
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Is there an SD Card diagnostic utility?
Are there any SD Card diagnostic utility programs out there for Ubuntu? I would like to run tests on my SD card to check capacity, write speed etc. I have one for windows but I am looking for a Linux ...
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Laptop USB ports stop working: how to restart them without restarting the PC? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
USB slots stop working suddenly from time to time
The usb ports of my laptop fail for some reason from time to time. This concerns apparently mainly the external mouse and ...
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Cannot copy to USB - every USB stick is read only (16.04)
Every USB stick I plug in is read-only and I cannot copy files to it.
Here's what I've tried so far.
I've formatted each one to either FAT32 or NTFS, quick and detailed
format in Disks and GParted.
I'...
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Configure udev to change permissions on USB HID device?
I have a USB scale, a USB HID. Currently, when it is plugged in, the permissions only allow the superuser to access it. How can I configure udev to let anybody access this device? I have the vendor ...
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How to connect Android 7.1 to Ubuntu Linux with USB?
I'm trying to connect a Google Pixel phone, with android 7.1,
to a Ubuntu 16.04 laptop with a USB cable using mtp-tools.
But the mtp doesn't see the phone file system and gives the error
message "Get ...
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Ubuntu-touch reverse USB tethering
I'm trying to get the internet from my Nexus 4 ubuntu-touch through the USB as described here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Android_Tethering (this is for Android).
What I cannot accomplish ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 won't boot from usb - isolinux.bin missing or corrupt
This was an official 64-bit download from the Ubuntu site, so it's kind of sad to see even that's not working.
I made a bootable Ubuntu 12.10 USB stick with USB Image Writer (mintstick) on Linux ...
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Ubuntu doesn't detect or display or so on, external USB Hard Disk
It's NTFS. It's USB2. I'm using Ubuntu 13.04. It works perfectly fine on Windows (which excludes cable and hardware problems). I have two Ubuntu computers and it's not detected on either. It's about ...
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USB 2.0 device (scanner) does not work with xhci_hcd on USB 3.0 system
I'm trying to scan with samsung scx-4200 which is a printer with scanner. When I connect my brother's laptop which has the same version of ubuntu(14.04), it works. I don't know how and why. He did not ...
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How can I get a DisplayLink USB monitor work under Ubuntu?
I have a DisplayLink-based external USB monitor, which has both power and data over USB, and seems to work perfectly under Windows 7, but only can display a text console under Ubuntu 10.10, and that I ...
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How can I disable USB autosuspend for a specific device?
This is related to the issue discussed in Wireless mouse temporarily freezes (sleeps) on battery power.
Summary: the mouse freezes when operating on battery since it is autosuspended after a certain ...
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USB shared among students: set a password just for writing
I'm a school teacher and I'd like to share files in a USB stick among students and so among different OS.
In particular I would like to set a password for writing/changing, while the content of ...
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Format USB drive to NTFS so it is usable under Windows
When I format a drive to NTFS under Windows and plug it into the Ubuntu machine, it is perfectly usable. But when I format it under Ubuntu using Disks (delete all partitions and create one single ...
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How to add a GRUB2 menu entry for booting installed Ubuntu on a USB drive?
I am not asking how to boot the LiveCD from a USB.
I have 2 Ubuntu installations, one on my computer's internal hard drive and another on a USB drive.
Is there a way to add a GRUB2 menu entry (to ...
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Wireless USB Adapter 0bda:c811 Realtek Semiconductor Corp
I am a bit lost sorting through the pile of documentation and Q&As about this topic so im just going to specifically ask.
I run an ASUS laptop, its a few years old and is unable to use 5ghz wifi, ...
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Benchmarking of USB flash drive
I will appreciate if you can tell me some tools for ubuntu 14.04 LTS, that can measure transfer speed of USB flash drive. I need two or more programs to compare the results and if I can choose the ...
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Autorun a script after I plugged or unplugged a USB device
What can I do to run automatically a script after I mount/plugin or unmount/unplug a USB device?
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USB's storage capacity reduced to 2 MB from 16 GB
I downloaded ubuntu-13.04-desktop-amd64.
On Ubuntu's web page, I saw a link for making a bootable USB drive option, then I downloaded Universal-USB-Installer-1.9.3.3 and I made my USB bootable.
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What would be the differences between a persistent USB Live Session and a installed Ubuntu in a USB drive?
I'm a teacher and will ask my students to either bring their laptops with Ubuntu installed with an specific list of packages preinstalled or bring a USB Drive or External Hard Drive with Ubuntu and ...
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Got a "Your installation CD-ROM couldn't be mounted" error message when trying to install Ubuntu from a bootable USB
I am attempting to install Ubuntu Server 14.04 on a Lenovo ThinkServer TS130 with a USB flash drive (there is no DVD/CD optical drive onboard), however after the keyboard selection the following ...
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How to connect mtp android device to ubuntu 13.10
I searched here and google and all I could find is how in Ubuntu 13.04 forward mtp devices are supported. The answer I found are for ubuntu 12.04 or ubuntu 12.10
Well, I connected my phone in mtp ...
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Is Data Transfer between 2 Ubuntu Machines possible via USB-Cable?
I have two machines with Ubuntu 14.04, right next to each other. But no network ((W)LAN). Can I transfer data from one machine to the other via usb-cable? And if so, how?
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fail to install ubuntu server 14.04 64bit LTS from USB drive
I created a bootable USB using Startup disk creator (in ubuntu desktop 12.04 32bit), from an iso image of Ubuntu server 14.04 64 bit, when I want to boot another computer using this usb drive, The ...
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Unetbootin has no GUI on Ubuntu GNOME
I want to make the switch to Antergos. When opening Unetbootin, I can't open it successfully.
Here is what happens when I open UNetbootin from Terminal:
$ sudo unetbootin
X Error: BadAccess (attempt ...
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Is there any way to turn off a USB HDD manually?
I have a USB-powered external HDD connected to my DELL laptop. Some times, after clicking on "Safely remove" item in pop-up menu of its icon in side bar, the drive is un-mounted and is removed from /...
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Cannot mount USB stick - errors out with "$MFTMirr does not match $MFT"
I have an NTFS-formatted USB stick. When I connect it to a Windows system, it works fine. However, I receive this error output when I try and mount the USB stick on my Linux machine:
Error mounting ...
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lsusb command not found
I've installed Ubuntu on an external drive and it don't see my USB dongle. I am a complete novice with things Ubuntu.
After doing some digging I found that step 1 was to run lsusb. But that set of ...
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SYSLINUX: No DEFAULT or UI configuration directive found! [duplicate]
I have a USB live key created with Linux Live USB creator. I used all the defaults, and got a standard version of Ubuntu. When I try to boot into it, I get the error above. I went through the rest of ...
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How to create a bootable USB stick to flash a BIOS
I want to upgrade the BIOS on an Intel motherboard using a program called iflash2.exe, provided by Intel, which runs only on MS-DOS.
I do not have Windows operating system, and I am trying to create ...
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How to make a live Ubuntu 18.04 USB with a persistent storage of more than 4GB
After many unsuccessful trials based on almost everything about this topic on the Internet, I decided to ask this question again. There is almost a perfect answer in this platform, but it did not work....
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Does Ubuntu log when USB devices are connected?
When I connect a USB drive to an Ubuntu OS, would there be a text file which contains details of that connection and if so, where is that file located ? What is the name of that file?
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How to install TP-LINK T2UH Wireless adapter Driver (Ralink mt7610u)
I recently got a wireless adapter (TP-Link Archer T2UH V1). After plugging it in, I found out that the drivers for Linux are not native on Ubuntu. They do, however, have the drivers available for ...
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gphoto2: Could not claim the USB device
I'm trying to use My Canon 100D as a webcam on Ubuntu 17.10.
Whenever I try to launch:
gphoto2 --capture-movie
I returns this error:
An error occurred in the io-library ('**Could not claim the USB ...
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How can I enable USB type C connectors on 15.10?
Does linux support usb-c yet? So far only the power function seems to work, my phone will start charging when I plug it in.
I'm wondering if Ubuntu supports USB-C yet - in my experience, only the ...
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How do I list all storage devices (thumb drives/external hard drives) that are connected via USB, from the command line?
I would like to list ONLY devices connected via usb.
The problem is that Ubuntu seems to see all thumb drives as removable (in /sys/block/*/removable), but it does not see external hard drives the ...
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No sound on USB headset. How to manage soundcards and audio devices?
I had a fresh reinstall of Lubuntu 13.10 and my USB headset seems to be not working. I looked for solutions in some forums, but these didn't work for me.
My headset is a Genius Wire Gaming headset.
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What is a character device?
I was trying to make a partition on my USB drive when I came across some files/entities in /dev/ which seemed unfamiliar (such as hidraw2). When I opened /dev in file manager and looked into their ...
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Power on/off USB ports
Is it possible to on/off a specific USB port using the terminal in Ubuntu?
lsusb displays the following result:
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 ...
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Dell DA200 Adapter not working on Ubuntu
I have Dell XPS15, dual booting with Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (novice to Linux), which came with a Type-C USB. I just bought a Dell DA200 adapter for the USB which works on Windows but doesn't ...
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How do I create a bootable USB on Ubuntu from Hiren's Boot CD ISO for Windows?
Trying to create a Hiren's BootCD on a USB. Not needing anything else such as a dual boot of Ubuntu and Haren or Window's and Haren. All the programs that I can find to complete this either end up ...
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How to turn off the USB power to my mouse, when I suspend the notebook?
The LED light of my mouse gets on my nerves when sleeping. I usually close my notebook in the evening and Ubuntu calls pm-suspend. Anyways, the USB plug is still served with power. I could even charge ...
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Mount Nexus 5x via USB
I'm trying to mount one of the new nexus 5x phones on my laptop via mtp. When I plug it in, nautilus recognizes it as a nexus 5x and an option appears on the left. However, when I click on it, the ...
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Audio output device, fast switch?
Depending on the situation, I use either my speakers or my headset for audio output. Given that my headset is an USB headset it behaves as its own audio device.
Currently I switch between audio ...
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Permission problem on /media/user folder prevents me from accessing external media
When I plug in my external Hard drive, insert a DVD, or try to see what I've got on my USB drive, peculiar behavior is the usual outcome.
The filesystems mount fine. When I log in as root through ...
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14.04 Cannot create/delete/manipulate files on my Android device via USB
I've always had issues with compatibility between my Android phone and Ubuntu, but now it's gotten to the point that I can't do anything with it over USB. It's always been that when I plug in my ...
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How can I stop 'Unable to mount Android Device' messages from popping up?
Using 15.04
When I connect my phone to my PC, I get a message popup saying that Ubuntu was unable to mount the device - however I'm able to access the storage on my phone to add/remove files etc.
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Keyboard stops working on Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)
My keyboard stops working for no apparent reason.
After using Ubuntu for 2.5 years as a virtual machine on a Windows host (VirtualBox) I finally took the plunge, reformatted my hard disk and built ...
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