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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE topic PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Topic//EN" "topic.dtd">
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| 3 | <topic xml:lang="en-us" id="usbip-setup-server">
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| 4 | <title>Setting up USB/IP Support on a Linux System</title>
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| 6 | <body>
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| 7 | <p>This section gives a brief overview on how to set up a Linux based system to act as a USB device server. The
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| 8 | system on the server requires that the <filepath>usbip-core.ko</filepath> and <filepath>usbip-host.ko</filepath>
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| 9 | kernel drivers are available, and that the USB/IP tools package is installed. The particular installation method
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| 10 | for the necessary tools depends on which distribution is used. For example, for Debian based systems, use the
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| 11 | following command to install the required tools: </p>
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| 12 | <pre xml:space="preserve">$ apt-get install usbip-utils</pre>
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| 13 | <p>To check whether the necessary tools are already installed use the following command: </p>
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| 14 | <pre xml:space="preserve">$ usbip list -l
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| 15 | </pre>
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| 16 | <p>This should produce output similar to that shown in the example below: </p>
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| 17 | <pre xml:space="preserve"> - busid 4-2 (0bda:0301)
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| 18 | Realtek Semiconductor Corp. : multicard reader (0bda:0301)
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| 19 |
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| 20 | - busid 5-1 (046d:c52b)
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| 21 | Logitech, Inc. : Unifying Receiver (046d:c52b)
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| 22 | </pre>
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| 23 | <p>If everything is installed, the USB/IP server needs to be started as <codeph>root</codeph> using the following
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| 24 | command: </p>
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| 25 | <pre xml:space="preserve"># usbipd -D</pre>
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| 26 | <p>See the documentation for the installed distribution to determine how to start the service when the system boots. </p>
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| 27 | <p>By default, no device on the server is exported. This must be done manually for each device. To export a device
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| 28 | use the following command: </p>
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| 29 | <pre xml:space="preserve"># usbip bind -b "bus identifier"</pre>
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| 30 | <p>To export the multicard reader in the previous example: </p>
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| 31 | <pre xml:space="preserve"># usbip bind -b 4-2</pre>
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| 32 | </body>
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| 33 |
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| 34 | </topic>
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