Find a Blackberry in usb in Linux

Question

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

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered May 29 '11 at 23:05

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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.

answered May 29 '11 at 23:05

CRM

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Offtopic: As you are using Linux, I've found this [webpage](http://www.progweb.com/modules/blackberry/index-en.html) which contains valuable information about using your BlackBerry in Linux. – CRM May 29 '11 at 23:28

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 30 '11 at 08:35

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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.

edited May 30 '11 at 08:35

Gaff

answered May 29 '11 at 23:04

user775543

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