[CentOS] How to reset the USB subsystem?

Sat Jan 16 09:55:59 UTC 2021
Zsolt SZ <artifexor at gmail.com>

On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 6:01 PM Frank Bures <listfrank1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 1/14/21 3:00 PM, Zsolt SZ wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 5:22 PM Frank Bures <listfrank1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Is there a way how to reset the USB subsystem the same way one can restart
> >> networking or X without the necessity to reboot?
> >
> > I am using Debian but the usbutils package has the usbreset
> > application which works great for me. I had issues with my DVB-C USB
> > receiver and usbreset did the task quite well.
> >
> > This one, there is RPM as well:
> >
> > http://ftp.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=usbutils
>
> Unfortunately, the RPM package for CentOS 7 does not contain usbreset.

:-( Sorry for misleading you, I had to check it before. But I think it
is included as https://github.com/gregkh/usbutils site was mentioned
which is the home of usbreset.

I see Bob Marcan give you the real solution, great.

Cheers, Zsolt