Turning off the power to usb ports - command

[LuciusMare]

Hello,is there a command that would cut off the power of the usb ports?I was told to do
echo "0" > /sys/bus/usb/devices/device/power/state
but i have nothing like state in --/power/state... none of these.
Anyone know how to do this?

[reed9]

Never thought about it before, but found this in the kernel documentation.

Linux Kernel Documentation :: usb : power-management.txt

So I would guess something like

echo suspend > /sys/bus/usb/devices/usb1/power/level

Assuming the USB driver supported it, and the kernel was built with the CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND option enabled.

[LuciusMare]

Thanks for trying to help (nobody helped me elsewhere) but it does not work,as I may quote the kernel documentation

"suspend" means that the device should remain
suspended, and autoresume is not allowed. (But remote
wakeup may still be allowed, since it is controlled
separately by the power/wakeup attribute.)

So this would work only when it is not doing anythink,which is for my purposes unusable,the device connected will be somewhat like lamp,or something that is not controlled by usb,and does not take data from computer,just the power.
Any ideas?

[reed9]

Unless you can disable the USB port from the BIOS, I don't know of a way.