Why "lsusb" return nothing?

[Mark Bishop]

You don't have the USB module loaded or it isn't compiled into your kernel.

Peter Teoh <htmldeveloper at gmail.com> wrote:

>I entered "lsusb" at the command line (as root) and nothing is return,
>not even any error message.
>
>Doing a strace the last few lines are:
>
>open("/dev/bus/usb", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1
>ENOENT (No such file or directory)
>open("/proc/bus/usb", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1
>ENOENT (No such file or directory)
>
>What happened?
>
>This is Ubuntu 10.04 (it used NOT to be like that, not sure I what did
>wrong last time).   But running a VirtualBox INSIDE this same OS, I
>was able to get result from "lsusb" (after enabling the USB devices in
>VirtualBox interface) and strace gives result:
>
>open("/dev/bus/usb/001/002", O_RDWR)    = 3
>ioctl(3, USBDEVFS_IOCTL, 0xbff6f75c)    = -1 ENOTTY (Inappropriate
>ioctl for device)
>close(3)                                = 0
>open("/dev/bus/usb/001/001", O_RDWR)    = 3
>
>Why the difference?
>
>--
>Regards,
>Peter Teoh
>
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