does exist lsusb under MacPorts ?was(Re: macport libusb install)

Bryan Blackburn 0x62_0x6c_0x62 at pobox.com
Tue Jul 29 12:24:06 PDT 2008


On Jul 29, 2008, at 11:47 AM, Joshua Root wrote:

> Yvon Thoraval wrote:
>> is there a way to get lsusb under Mac OS X 10.4.11 ?
>> preferably under MacPorts ;-)
>
> The lsusb command is part of the usbutils package[1]. It looks to be
> pretty Linux-specific. Is there something you need it for that can't  
> be
> done with e.g. ioreg?
>

Very linux-centric, what with kernel calls and all.  There's also  
'system_profiler SPUSBDataType' for something a bit more readable than  
ioreg.

Bryan


> [1] http://www.linux-usb.org/
>
> - Josh


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