[ale] Command Line Question.

[Brian Pitts]

Devnull wrote:
> I love lsusb. For the brief time that I used Windows, I longed for a
> tool like this so I could search for drivers because it gave the
> vendor name (and in many cases the device name) rather than Windows'
> verbose 'Unknown Device'.

Maybe this? [0]

> On a somewhat-related tangent, if I had a device name from lsusb, how
> would I (offline preferred) find the name of the correct kernel module
> to modprobe?

Online, you could search for it here. [1] Offline, perhaps grep the
kernel sources for the device id?

[0] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc748123.aspx
[1] http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/

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All the best,
Brian Pitts