USBVIEW(8)

💅 USBVIEW — the manual, but make it cute

okay bestie, so this is the usbview page from the System Manager's Manual (section 8, we love a system admin moment) and honestly? it's giving "plug it in and look at the little tree" energy and I am obsessed. ✨

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🎀 NAME 🎀

usbview — display information on USB devices 👀🔌

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

usbview

that's it. that's the whole invocation. no args, no flags, no drama. 🫶

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so basically usbview gives you a graphical summary of USB devices connected to the system. like, a whole visual situation. ✨🔌

and if you want the tea on one specific device? you can get detailed information by selecting individual devices in the tree display. it's a tree. you click. you learn things. it's iconic. 🌳💖

and here's the part you NEED to know or you WILL be confused: red items are those that have no driver associated with them. no driver, no love, red flag (literally). 🚩 not me staring at a red entry wondering why my thing isn't working — now you know, bestie.

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

okay so the vibe check here is:

• No command line options are accepted by usbview. — zero. none. don't try it. it does not want your flags. it wants to be run. periodt. 💅

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🍓 FILES 🍓

• /sys/kernel/debug/usb/devices — kernel file providing information on USB devices attached to the machine. this is where the ✨knowledge✨ lives, iykyk. 📂💜

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go be nosy somewhere else too, bestie:

• lsusb(8)
• lspci(8)

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

usbview was written by Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com> — king behaviour, we stan. 🫶👑

This manual page was written by Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used freely by others). giving, generous, slay. 💖

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and that's the whole page fr fr 🧚✨

<cute>little sign-off just for you: this was the USBVIEW(8) page from the System Manager's Manual, dated July 2002 — yes it's vintage, yes it still eats, no cap. 💀🎀</cute>