Free usb software for linux

makebootfat is a command line utility able to create bootable USB disks for Linux and Windows using the FAT filesystem and syslinux.

makebootfat is the most advanced tool available able to make bootable USB disks. Its able to autodetect/partition/format/populate the USB disk in a single step without any user interaction.

Its also able to create disk images which are compatibles with all the three standards USB-FDD, USB-HDD and USB-ZIP at the same time.

To use makebootfat you probably need also syslinux or FreeDOS

gunzets supports Gunze touch panels under Linux and XFree86. Supported panels are the serial, PS/2, and USB devices.
All devices are supported by means of an XFree86 module, and the USB device via a kernel module as well. Both XFree version 3.3.6 and 4.x are supported, as well as kernel 2.2 and 2.4. The driver is supported by Gunze USA.
Version restrictions:
- Debouncing is only supported for XFree 4.0 (not 3.3.6).
- A bounce event breaks smoothing processing
- Support for multi-screen operation is not supported.
Compiling
In order to successfully load the module you need to have the following facilities compiled in your kernel or loaded as modules:
- usb generic support (usbcore.o)
- a usb host controller driver (usb-ohci.o o usb-uhci.o)
- support for misc devices like the ps2 mouse (misc.o)
- the input mechanism (input.o)
To compile the driver just make. If your 2.4 or 2.2 kernel headers are not available from /usr/src/linux/include then specify KERNELDIR to point to your kernel source directory, either on the make command line or in the environment. For example:
make KERNELDIR=/usr/src/linux-2.4
To load the driver, use insmod:
insmod ./gunzets.o
To use the input mechanism, specify it on the command line:
insmod ./gunzets.o use_input=1
To automatically create the entry point in /dev (needed if you are not using the input mechanism) run the gunzets_load script instead:
./gunzets_load
Instllation
To install the module to the proper places you can run make install. You may also wish to copy gunzets_load from /usr/local/bin to /etc/rc.d/init.d or /etc/init.d and create a proper symbolic link for automatic load at boot.

gmp3sort is used to reorder files on usb mp3 sticks with fat16 filesystem.
Some mp3 usb sticks have no support for playlists or shuffle.
Since they use fat16, files are ordered by creation date, which results in no or little control over the playlist.
gmp3sort renames files, moves them to a temporary directory and moves them back, thus creating the desired file order.
Main features:
- glade xml
- double click on textview row
- copynpaste textview rows
- dragndrop textview rows
- textview multiple selection
- textview context menu
- textview selection, iteration
- textview column sort, return to unsorted mode
- dragndrop from nautilus
- GnomeVFS URI parsing
- FileChooserDialogs?
- GtkFilter? for FileChooserDialog?
- Statusbar

sn-webcam is a program that captures and displays frames from an sn9c102-based Sonix/Microdia Webcam, using Video for Linux 2 and the sn9c102 USB driver. sn-webcam project also allows the user to upload the captured images by FTP.

Transfer to Media Device is a script that creates a new Playlist Right Click Menu item for transferring selected playlist items to your iPod via the Media Device Browser.
This script now also supports generic copy to operation for USB mass storage devices. Currently the script will prompt for a destination directory on first copy, in the future this setting will be saved in a configuration file.
This script works with amaroK 1.3beta3 and above.
Usage:
Run from the amaroK script manager. A new menu item will appear in the Playlist right mouse button menu.
Select files in the playlist and Right click -> Transfer to -> iPod for transfering to an iPod.
Select files in the playlist and Right click -> Transfer to -> USB Device for transfering to a USB device.
Enhancements:
- Add support for Creative Nomad Jukebox devices using the kionjb kioslave. Thanks to Ralf T for the patch.

p54u is a reverse engineered driver for USB Prism54 SoftMAC wireless devices with the ISL3880, ISL3886, and GW3887 chipsets.
p54u project supports many of the USB adapters sold nowadays.
Enhancements:
- This release adds FreeBSD 6 support, a new firmware upload scheme (at last, it will work when the device is connected at boot time), and a new fix for the ARM memory allocator, eliminating some more random device failures.

usb-mount project provides desktop integration for systems using the hotplug scripts and the KDE desktop. It automatically mounts and unmounts USB storage partitions and modifies the users desktop, via the addition of icons representing USB storage device partitions.
The user can interact with the storage device by opening the desktop icons to reveal the folders corresponding to each partition. Each partitions mount status can be altered by using icon control options.
These scripts work for me on Fedora Core 2 and Redhat 9. Several people have reported that they can be made to function on many other Linux distributions with minor configuration changes and some editing.
To get them to work on your system you may need knowledge of Linux and shell scripting. If the scripts dont work out of the box, you should look for errors in /var/log/messages (or where ever your system log is kept). If you are not comfortable with reading logs and editing scripts - perhaps these scripts arent for you.
I no longer have any Linux systems with 2.4 kernels, I think the scripts will still work. All recent modifications have only been tested on Fedora Core 4 running kernel 2.6.
Many distributions are now adequately handling usb - so I havent spent much time improving usb-mount. If anyone wants to fork a new version, feel free. The new kernel, dbus, etc should make it quite easy to create a simpler script from scratch.
Enhancements:
- More fixes for newer kernels/distibutions that take longer to setup usb devices;
- Handle flash card readers that have more than one device (thanks to Edward);
- Ignore non usb-storage devices (thanks to Wolfgang Klein).

copyplaylist2 is small script that copies the current playlist to a certain directory.

For use with mobile devices like mp3-players or usb-sticks. Can also be used to create a tree of directories for CD/DVD archiving.