{"id":158,"date":"2011-09-10T04:18:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T04:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/?p=158"},"modified":"2021-11-17T12:29:34","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T12:29:34","slug":"os-x-equivalent-to-lsusb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/?p=158","title":{"rendered":"OS X equivalent to lsusb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of the (not many) annoyances using a Mac computer :). Not all Linux\/Unix terminal commands work. One of them is <strong>lsusb<\/strong>. I tried it and got &quot;<em><strong>command not found<\/strong><\/em>&quot;. Then I tried to install it via MacPorts (<em>sudo port install usbutils<\/em> with no luck).&nbsp;Then I checked the web and found out that some people <a href=\"http:\/\/refluxions.wordpress.com\/2008\/08\/18\/mac-os-x-mouse-madnessfixed\/\">compiled the code and apparently it works<\/a> (read comments). But I did not want to compile anything. I knew there should be a OS X equivalent. I found this <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.frosties.org\/post\/2009\/08\/25\/Mac-OS-X%3A-%C3%A9quivalent-%C3%A0-lsusb\">French<\/a> and this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macuser.de\/forum\/f22\/usb-info-ala-384715\/\">German<\/a> page (both languages that I don&#8217;t understand) and found this command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"background-color: #ffff78;\"><font size=\"4\">$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType<\/font>\t\r\n<p><font size=\"4\">      PCI Vendor ID: 0x8086 \r\n      Bus Number: 0x3a \r\n\r\n    USB Bus:\r\n\r\n      Host Controller Location: Built-in USB\r\n      Host Controller Driver: AppleUSBUHCI\r\n      PCI Device ID: 0x2830 \r\n      PCI Revision ID: 0x0003 \r\n      PCI Vendor ID: 0x8086 \r\n      Bus Number: 0x1d <\/font>\r\n&nbsp;..........<\/p><\/pre>\n<p>I wanted to share this in English as well. <\/p>\n<p>And yes, the output is not the same as with lsusb.<\/p>\n<p><strong>EDIT (26. 7. 2012)<\/strong>: Takaite (comments) shared the tip to <strong>get this info graphically<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Click on the <strong>Apple<\/strong> in the left top corner<\/li>\n<li>Select<strong> About this mac<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Click on the button <strong>More info<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>In the contents select <strong>Hardware-&gt;USB<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Or<\/strong> you can go to <strong>Applications-&gt;Utilities-&gt;System profiler<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screenshot2012-07-27at00.00.49.png\" class=\"no_float\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of the (not many) annoyances using a Mac computer :). Not all Linux\/Unix terminal commands work. One of them is lsusb. I tried it and got &quot;command not found&quot;. Then I tried to install it via MacPorts (sudo port install usbutils with no luck).&nbsp;Then I checked the web and found out that&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-software-hints"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1516,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/1516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}