/* usbreset -- send a USB port reset to a USB device */ /* http://marc.info/?l=linux-usb-users&m=116827193506484&w=2 and needs mounted usbfs filesystem sudo mount -t usbfs none /proc/bus/usb There is a way to suspend a USB device. In order to use it, you must have a kernel with CONFIG_PM_SYSFS_DEPRECATED turned on. To suspend a device, do (as root): echo -n 2 >/sys/bus/usb/devices/.../power/state where the "..." is the ID for your device. To unsuspend, do the same thing but with a "0" instead of the "2" above. Note that this mechanism is slated to be removed from the kernel within the next year. Hopefully some other mechanism will take its place. > To reset a > device? Here's a program to do it. You invoke it as either usbreset /proc/bus/usb/BBB/DDD or usbreset /dev/usbB.D depending on how your system is set up, where BBB and DDD are the bus and device address numbers. Alan Stern */ #include #include #include #include #include #include int main(int argc, char **argv) { const char *filename; int fd; int rc; if (argc != 2) { fprintf(stderr, "Usage: usbreset device-filename\n"); return 1; } filename = argv[1]; fd = open(filename, O_WRONLY); if (fd < 0) { perror("Error opening output file"); return 1; } printf("Resetting USB device %s\n", filename); rc = ioctl(fd, USBDEVFS_RESET, 0); if (rc < 0) { perror("Error in ioctl"); return 1; } printf("Reset successful\n"); close(fd); return 0; }