USBView is a GTK program that displays the topography of the devices that are plugged into the USB bus on a Linux machine. It also displays information on each of the devices. This can be useful to determine if a device is working properly or not. For this program to be useful, you will need to mount the debug filesystem (debugfs). Add this line to your /etc/fstab: debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0 Now a simple `mount debugfs` will make the USB info available to USBView.