power off 5V on USB port

Matthias Apitz guru at unixarea.de
Tue Apr 7 14:13:11 UTC 2015



Hello,

I'm using an Ubuntu smartphone connected on one of the USB ports to my
netbook as a router to the Internet. I wanted to power-off the USB port to
a) save energy in the netbook and
b) not having the phone always charged for the memory effect in the battery.

I tried:

$ usbconfig
...
ugen0.3: <AquarisE4.5 BQ> at usbus0, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=HIGH (480Mbps) pwr=ON (500mA)

# usbconfig -d ugen0.3 power_off
# usbconfig -d ugen0.3 
ugen0.3: <AquarisE4.5 BQ> at usbus0, cfg=255 md=HOST spd=HIGH (480Mbps) pwr=OFF (500mA)

as you can see the state is now pwr=OFF, but in this state the USB port
is not longer usable. What is the correct way to shutdown the 5V
provided via USB to the device?

Thanks

	matthias
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Matthias Apitz, guru at unixarea.de, http://www.unixarea.de/ +49-170-4527211
"Wenn der Mensch von den Umständen gebildet wird, so muß man die Umstände menschlich bilden."
"Si el hombre es formado por las circunstancias entonces es necesario formar humanamente
las circunstancias", Karl Marx in Die heilige Familie / La sagrada familia (MEW 2, 138)


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