Find a Blackberry in usb in Linux

I just connected my BlackBerry to Linux via USB cable. How do I know which device in /dev it actually is?

Frank Vilea

Posted 2011-05-29T22:42:05.920

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Answers

If you execute dmesg after plugging in your Blackberry, you'll get as output something like the following:

[33399.504750] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
[33399.507712] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdd] Attached SCSI removable disk

where sdc and sdd are the device node identifiers.

Or you can execute hal-device to list all the devices.

Or even ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/usb* to list all usb block devices.

bacchus

Posted 2011-05-29T22:42:05.920

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Offtopic: As you are using Linux, I've found this webpage which contains valuable information about using your BlackBerry in Linux.

– bacchus – 2011-05-29T23:28:37.633

The lsusb command will help, it will list (ls) the USB devices.

You can then compare the device number with the major and minor numbers in your /dev dir.

user775543

Posted 2011-05-29T22:42:05.920

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