I need a program to reset a usb connection, given a usb id. In the Debian/Ubuntu world, this is available in the usbutils package as usbreset. I looked for it on EndeavourOS, but cannot find it in Arch or in the AUR.
The usbutils package also provides lsusb, which is one of the most basic tools. I cannot imagine that it is missing on E-OS. What am I missing here?
It’s in the AUR:
You already have lsusb on Arch, it’s part of the usbutils core package. It does not come with the usbreset utility.
Shockingly easy. Only searching for usbutils threw me off track.
But after further inspection, it is not the solution. This is even without a manpage and does NOT work with the USB IDs (VID:PID). Probably just Greg-Kroah Hartman’s ten lines of code for this purpose.
I am looking for the usbreset which works with the USB ID (a man page would also be nice). So, the search continues.
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Welcome to the forum @emk2203 
So far, not the solution I am looking for. I have to keep searching and keep this open.
It is indeed just that.
There’s no man page, but did you check the instructions at the github page? Skip steps 1 and 2, as you installed from the AUR. You find and use the Bus ID of the USB device:
The bus id wasn’t really what I wanted, since I need to reset a specific device. But I found that I can use the also-installed usbreset-device for this purpose with sudo usbreset-device VID:PID.
Issue at hand solved. Still puzzles me why Arch and E-OS take such a significant deviation from installing just the whole shebang from GKH’s github and be done with it.
At least, a nice systemd service is thrown in to reset after suspend. 
Thanks again!
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