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I am new to linux system and encountered several frustrated issues. Trying to list usb devices connected to my system and see what name /port is associated to each bus, and as i have seen many post where showing a list of usb buses on their system. cmd>ver Windows Version is Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19041.153]

I am running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS , WSL2.

$lsusb ............... no output

$ dmesg ................... [ 0.020118] Microsoft 4.4.0-19041.1-Microsoft 4.4.35

the usb stick is listed in device manager under windows and works normally.

any idea

Thanks

Hussam Mj
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You appear to be running Ubuntu under WSL.
You Linux installation is running in a Virtual Machine environment in that case. And because of that it doesn't see the real hardware, but a simulated hardware that doesn't include the USB devices.

You can manually mount the filesystem on the USB stick if you want.

  1. Make a mount point folder: mkdir /mnt/e
  2. Mount the file system: mount -t drvfs e: /mnt/e

You can also mount a network-share that way: Simply replace e: with the UNC path of he share (e.g \\servername\sharename

Please note that the above is WSL specific and has nothing to do with normal Linux operation.

Tonny
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