On 06/19/2018 06:45 AM, Russell Senior wrote:
Here is someone 10 years ago, using debian:
https://jonmccune.wordpress.com/2008/12/09/prolific-pl-25a1-usb-to-usb-bridge-in-linux/
What your distribution does (even if it is still Debian) might be different
today, but it looks like it creates a network interface (usbN, in this
case). Again, your mileage might vary, but the dmesg output should tell
you what interface name is assigned.
You could also compare the output before and after plugging in the cable of
the command: ip addr
For example:
ip addr > /tmp/before-plugging.txt
[plug in device]
ip addr > /tmp/after-plugging.txt
diff -u /tmp/before-plugging.txt /tmp/after-plugging.txt
The difference should be the newly created network interface.
The output of the "diff" command was visually cluttered.
I found it easier to just run "ip addr" for each of my test cases. None
of the tests exceeded the display capability of MATE Terminal.
I have a four port USB expander. I did of one/both end(s) of cable
plugged in and using permutation of which port(s) used.
All results were of the form:
8: enp0s29u1u1u4: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast
state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
link/ether 5a:29:e7:d9:d6:dd brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
ONLY
<BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN
group default qlen 1000
was consistent throughout.
All other content was dependent ONLY on physical port used.
More later.
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