USB is an acronym for Universal Serial Bus. The current USB standard is USB 3.0, which supports transfer speeds of up to 625MB/s.
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How do I use Unetbootin to make a bootable Windows USB installer?
it says missing bootmngr or something like that. I'm on ubuntu 12.04 or whatever, the newest one using the gparted to format to NTSC and then unetbootin to install the bootloader, and the iso, then ...
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Why is my external USB hard drive sometimes completely inaccessible?
I have an external USB hard drive, consisting of an 1 TB SATA drive in a Rosewill RX35-AT-SU SLV Aluminum 3.5" Silver USB 2.0 External Enclosure, plugged into my SONY VAIO VGN-NS310F laptop. It is ...
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USB Boot on imac
I'm having issues installing ubuntu on my apple late 09 27" iMac.
First thing i have to tell you is that my disc drive isn't working anymore.
My only chance to boot on ubuntu is by USB or SD card...
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Cannot start GDM [closed]
I am using Ubuntu 11.10.
I was not able to remove a directory as root so I used the Ubuntu 11.10 install disk and chose the "Repair broken system" option. Far from repairing the system, it made it ...
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Help with USB wireless network
I've problem with my USB Network Reciever Belkin. I can't get it to work. I've cd with drivers, are they only for Windows? If I start Ubuntu and try to click install.exe doesn't work. I'm getting ...
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Mouse takes a while to start working after boot
I just recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 (64 bit) and a number of my USB devices have stopped working. At least, they don't work for the first 3-5 minutes. I have two mice (one wireless, one wired) ...
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USB Mouse and Keyboard not working after booting (worked until today)
after a cold start it needs some time till my mouse and my keyboard get recognized.
It worked until today.
On this machine it runs a Linux desktop 3.2.0-26-generic #41-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jun 14 17:49:24 ...
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USB devices only recognized after I login
I'm experiencing some troubles after upgrade 11.10 final version... In the matter of fact, I never had troubles using the devices, with the upgrade, but I formatted the notebook, and made a Clean ...
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USB Keyboard and Mouse no longer work after GRUB boot
My USB keyboard and mouse don't work when booting into Ubuntu 12.04.
The keyboard is fine up until the boot loader (GRUB). I can select previous kernels or recovery mode. But regardless of the ...
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Problems Booting Ubuntu From iMac!
I have a problem booting Ubunutu 13.04 on my iMac. When i start my Mac i'll hold the option key but when the menu that let's you choose startup disk, My Ubuntu USB dosn't show up ;(
Please help me.
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Why can't I suppress this enumeration error?
I just installed Ubuntu Server 13.04, haven't done any updates nor installed any software, and I'm getting this error:
hub 2-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 6
And this keeps popping up ...
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How do I install a Wimax usb driver?
I am using wimax usb modem in Ubuntu 9.04 properly. I am familiar with Ubuntu 10.04 and try to install the same deb file to use my wimax USB modem, but it could not install and give me the following ...
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Did not detect Mocromax MMX353G netsetter
I had Micromax MMX353G net setter, but it did not detecting on Ubuntu 12.04 onwards versions even in Ubuntu 13.04. And also I try to connect with Sakis3G (http://www.sakis3g.org/) script run through ...
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Slow USB transfer speeds
I am experiencing very slow USB transfer speeds when trying to backup files to a USB HDD. I am not entirely sure when the problem 1st occured but there was definitely a period using 12.04 where ...
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Problem with starting Ubuntu from usb
I installed Ubuntu on an USB drive with this program:
http://www.linuxliveusb.com/en/download
As it said in the guide, I wanted to start it directly from the USB with "Virtualize_This_Key.exe" but it ...
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live usb problems
I have made usb live 12.04 on 4gb pendrive. On first startup everything went wery well, but I started to had error messages about no free space. But I had like 2 gb of free space!
Now on 2nd ...
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Problems with USB mouse on 12.04 LTS
My mouse stops working after a few seconds, or a few minutes at most. It works fine on my Raspberry Pi and on my Mac, but my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS system complains:
[ 654.508063] usb 2-5: new low-speed ...
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Installing Ubuntu onto MacBook Pro via USB
I am new to this forum, and to Ubuntu. But I am trying to get it installed onto my MacBook Pro (late 2009 - with an installed Samsung SSD).
I have attempted to follow the tutorial on the Ubuntu ...
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installing ubuntu 13.04 with windows 8 [duplicate]
i have created liveUSB with ubuntu 13.04 desktop-64-amd and on the bios screen i have disabled secureboot.but now whenever i select boot through usb option ,the laptop gets loaded through normal way ...
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Turning an XBMC ISO USB stick writable [closed]
I have a USB stick booting XBMC no problem, and half of it is taken up by casper, which was an option when I made the stick using some Windows tool or other. Now, the only thing is, none of my ...
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USB drive not consistently recognized in Lubuntu. Why?
I have a Lubuntu that I have downloaded from Wubi.exe, and I have a very simple problem.
Most of the time, whenever I plug in my pendrive, or USB drive, which has a memory capacity of 32GB and of the ...
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How to open SD card from terminal?
I'm trying to open my SD memorycard, but it doesn't show up when plugged in. Though it is detected when I look at the USB-devices
lsusb
and then I get:
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0ac8:c33e Z-Star ...
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No more wlan0 interface
Since this morning I'm trying to configure my USB stick with Ubuntu 13.04.
I tried to compile a driver, without success, then I tried to install the windows driver with ndiswrapper.
After the ...
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'Invalid or corrupt kernel image' error while booting from USB stick
I got the Ubuntu 11.10 32-bit edition and i used Unetbootin to write the ISO to a usb stick.After that i tried to boot from the stick,having changed the BIOS boot settings,and when the first interface ...
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clearwire connection issue
im trying to use a clearwire mobile usb stick here on a laptop i recently installed ubuntu onto i have the modem stick and the software stick however the files in the software only read for windows ...
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How do I install Ubuntu with a usb on a Dell that has no Operating System?
I've been trying to look for this for a while, I only have access to one computer and that is my school computer that has blocks on using a lot of programs thank god I can download Ubuntu. I'm trying ...
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Photo transfer problems from camera
We have a digital camera (Cannon SX130 IS) which we often connect to the Ubuntu 12.10 desktop via USB in order to download the images. In past flavours of Linux (Mint 12 was most recent) it worked ...
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USB 3.0 does not work Acer Aspire M5-581T Ubuntu 64
I have install ubuntu 13.04 and made all the updates but the USB port in mine Acer Aspire M5-M581T ultrabook does not work. I insert some USB Key and don't work as well as some external mouse but ...
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Trying to boot from USB on Asus q200e-bhi3t45 just brings me to grub menu
It's been a struggle every time I've tried to change my OS on this machine. I honestly don't even know how it works whenever it does. I've somehow managed to get Windows 7, Windows 8, Mint 14, Ubuntu ...
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USB tethering from Android
I used a friend's Android (2.3) phone that allows USB tethering, subheading: "share phone's mobile network with PC."
Android lets me set 2 tethering settings, under "USB tethering type":
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Which dock station delivering power + external monitor would work with 13.04?
As mentioned in many other posts, USB 3.0-dock stations (with DisplayLink3000) do not work with Linux and I seem to understand there is no hope to have it working soon.
I have myself a new Dell XPS13 ...
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USB pen drive is detected in Windows but not in Ubuntu
My Sony pen drive gets detected in windows but I cannot find it on my Ubuntu.
I formatted the drive with FAT,FAT32 and NTFS but the same problem.
I went through FAQs but did not find anything helpful.
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Ubuntu doesn't see my phone (Sony Xperia Tipo)
When I connect my phone Xperia Tipo to my Ubuntu 12.04, the USB icon does not appear in a launcher.
lsusb gives me following results:
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
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USB mount nightmare on 12.04
I'm not that familiar with Ubuntu and I know there are plenty of posts on this issue, but noone on my capabilities to understand what to do. USB auto mounting of flash drive and photocamera (Nikon and ...
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How the heck do I mount my Android phone?
I'm super puzzled because my phone used to just appear when I plugged it in. It doesn't anymore and The development options are definitely set to allow USB debugging. The phone is charging via USB but ...
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Long boot time caused by usb driver error?
I'm running 12.10 right now and just recently updated the kernel (a couple times now). I believe that since the update, my usb hardware has been having an issue. First of all it takes a long time JUST ...
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Unable to Connect MTS Mblaze modem in Ubuntu 12.10?
I am using Ubuntu for 1st time and I do have an modem MTS Mblaze in India which I am using in Windows.
But when I tried to connect in Ubuntu 12.10 using give default method (i.e. choose country, ...
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ThinkPad T520 won't boot from USB
This is cross-post from ubuntuforums.org but as I've received no responses there I'm hoping for better luck here.
Basically, I've installed the full version of Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS on a 32 GB SanDisk ...
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How to install Linksys N600 (AE2500) dual band wireless adapter on Ubuntu 13.04 32-bit desktop?
I just got a Linksys N600 (AE2500) dual band adapter to install on my Ubuntu 13.04 deskyop. Lsusb shows it uses BCM43236 and device id is 13b1:003a. I also saw brcmfmac43236b.bin in ...
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Can't access any storage devices on 12.10
Hi I've just started using Ubuntu 12.10 (today!) my first time with any non-windows OS. I wanted to retrieve some files after windows stopped working. I boot Ubuntu from a USB and it seems to work ...
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Getting Linksys N600 to work with ubuntu 13.04 (64-bit)
I decided to switch my old computer from windows to Ubuntu for my son to use and I can't get the Linksys N600 wireless adapter to work.
If I type lsusb I get the following indicating that its able to ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 Bootable USB Drive- Desktop not responding
I have a bootable USB drive that works just fine everywhere but the desktop. The desktop does not show icons or give me the ability to right-click. Everything works great except for the desktop. I ...
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Bootable USB drive won't run installation
I am having issues installing 12.10 on a laptop from bootable USB Drive 4GB FAT32.
Also I changed order on BIOS to boot from USB.
But only I see is the black screen with
SYSLINUX 4.06 EDD 4.06-pre7 ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 , usb device detected, failed to mount
I put here the result when i reattached the usb device if anyone could explain what was that means.
[ 8404.685192] usb 2-1.1: USB disconnect, device number 28
[ 8404.688451] scsi 28:0:0:0: rejecting ...
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Ubuntu 12.4 on 3.4.45 kernel: Can't access USB memory stick
I installed kernel version 3.4.45 [LTS] on ubuntu 12.4 on a Acer laptop. With this configuration, the USB memory drives can't be accessed, some details are follows.
Upon inserting the USB drive dmesg ...
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USB Datacard not getting detected
I have a USB datacard which worked well with the backtrack5r3 (Which is based on Ubuntu 10.04LTS ) but it is not getting detected in Ubuntu 12.04LTS/13.04
The USB modem which I have been using will ...
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How do I use a 4GB USB flash drive to install Ubuntu 12.10?
I've downloaded "ubuntu-12.10-desktop-amd64" and used Pen Drive Linux to get it onto my USB. I then restarted my computer (a Windows 7 Home Premium edition) and entered the boot menu to have it boot ...
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“Error Loading Operating system” when booting from usb to install 12.10 64bit
I have just built a new computer I've never installed Linux on a computer before.
booting from my usb come up with "error loading operating system". I am trying to install it on my new 64gb SSD, it ...
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Can't boot Chromium OS from USB! [closed]
I've recently downloaded the vanilla chromium os from hexxah and have written it on my usb stick. I followed every step and plugged it into my laptop. After I changed the boot order I managed to boot ...
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Unknown USB Flash Drive
Suddenly my Kingston DataTraveler 8GB is shown as unknown! The weird thing is that I can only "see" it through Disk Utility.
GParted or sudo fdisk -l or sudo fdisk -lu cannot see it.
I tried to ...
