USB Hub thru network

tzimisce012 · 2015-10-31 15:21:52

Hello, new user here.

I am doing pretty well with my system, but I still have a small issue. I have a usb hub plugged to the router of the house and in that usb hub I have all my devices plugged, like printers, scanners, etc.

The problem is that I really do not know how to make this working. When I use lsusb y get the following:

Bus 009 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:0161 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Mass Storage Device
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

So I guess my computer is not detecting what is plugged in the Hub. Moreover, I really do not know if my computer is detecting the Hub itself.

I was checking the wiki and internet and I did not find anything useful

Last edited by tzimisce012 (2015-10-31 15:22:04)

nomorewindows · 2015-10-31 15:46:32

I'm not sure about your router, but with Arch/Linux you can install usbip and share your devices over the network.

tzimisce012 · 2015-10-31 16:30:42

I have tried that before. This what I have done:

With the command

usbip list -l

I get:

 - busid 5-1 (046d:c52b)
   Logitech, Inc. : Unifying Receiver (046d:c52b)

 - busid 1-1 (0bda:0161)
   Realtek Semiconductor Corp. : Mass Storage Device (0bda:0161)

Now I try to check the ip of my device. I have a usbstick plugged in the Usb Hub and if I write the right ip on the browser I get the info of it. So I use the command:

usbip list -r 192.168.1.101

and after a long wait the terminal says:

usbip: error: could not connect to 192.168.1.101:3240: System error

nomorewindows · 2015-10-31 22:05:46

Please differentiate whether you are running these commands on the router or on Arch to/from the router.

Elizine · 2015-11-03 08:51:32

I think it's the issue with the Gigabyte mother board. As per my notification, all USBs work in BIOS but not when ubuntu is loaded.
There is an option in BIOS / Peripherals to Enable IOMMU. No idea what's its for, but enabling this makes things work.

ewaller · 2015-11-03 17:01:50

If I understand correctly, you have a USB port on your router and you are plugging all of your devices through a USB hub into that router. Then, on a computer that is attached via Ethernet to that router (wired or wireless), you expect those USB devices to show up in the output of lsusb on said router. I make this assumption based on the thread title. I does not work that way. USB devices plugged into one computer (the router) do not magically appear as USB devices on other computers on the network.

On the other hand, nomorewindows shares my concern. These commands could be the results of you logging into your router. Please clarify.
Anything plugged into a router that is expected to be a network service needs something running on the router to expose that service to the network. Mass storage could be exposed as SMB or NFS. A printer would be handled by the router by acting as a network print server. A scanner would be exposed by the router providing SANE services. But, in all cases, the communication with the USB device is by the kernel on the router talking to user space tools on the router that provide network services to other computers on the network (and if you are not careful to every computer on the Internet)

tzimisce012 · 2015-11-13 18:29:12

Elizine wrote:

I think it's the issue with the Gigabyte mother board. As per my notification, all USBs work in BIOS but not when ubuntu is loaded.
There is an option in BIOS / Peripherals to Enable IOMMU. No idea what's its for, but enabling this makes things work.

I have an Asus Maximus Formula motherboard. But actually I am having some kind of problems with the regular 3.0 USB. The system sometimes recognizes them and sometimes not. For example, right now the system is not recognizing them.

ewaller wrote:

If I understand correctly, you have a USB port on your router and you are plugging all of your devices through a USB hub into that router. Then, on a computer that is attached via Ethernet to that router (wired or wireless), you expect those USB devices to show up in the output of lsusb on said router. I make this assumption based on the thread title. I does not work that way. USB devices plugged into one computer (the router) do not magically appear as USB devices on other computers on the network.

After open this topic I was researching a bit about this. You are completly right, but then I have a question in my head: Why the system recognize the printer magically? I mean, when I use the wizard for the printer, if I go to the section of network printers, the system detects my printer, and use the proper drivers. Moreover, I can even try to print and sometimes some kind of document is printed (maybe the first line of the text file).

Well, I will try to explain wahat is my setup. In the liviing room there is a modem with with 3 outputs. One for a miniserver, other for the media center and the other goes to ROOM A. In the ROOM A there is switch. This switch has couple inputs for the personal configuration of the user of the room and one output goes for ROOM B. In this room there is another switch, and this one has couple outputs. One of them is for the USB HUB where the printer is plugged and the other goes to the ROOM C. In ROOM C, where I survive; I have my own switch where I have 3 computers plugged.

All windows computers communicate with the USB HUB with a software called USB RALLY.

I have so far good knowledge on computers and programming, but I am really null with networking, so I apologyze for all my mistakes.

So the final question is "How can I make communications wit the USB HUB?"

Thanks

ewaller · 2015-11-14 01:53:25

What kind of printer is it? I like HP printers and they tend to do a pretty good job of discovery over networks. But that is the point. The router is acting as a print server and is advertising the printer to the network.
My 30 second web search on USB Rally was not interesting. How about samba ?

tzimisce012 · 2015-11-15 23:59:06

It is a cannon ip4900. I have been checking different options for USB rally on linux and i did not get anything interesting. So I was trying couple days ago again, this time using lpd. When I type the ip adress of the hub i get the characteristics of the device and some options, very limited though. I checked that in the printer section the info says lpd something. So I tried to setup the printer using this. I wrote the ip and then the name in the queue. When i tried to print, the printer changes the status to busy and print some kind of rectangle and stop printing. I think I am getting close but I do not know what is missing...

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USB Hub thru network

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