This question seems to be all over google, but the answers all point to using System Profiler. That's nice, but with System Profiler all you get is something that looks like this:
DasKeyboard:
Product ID: 0x1919
Vendor ID: 0x04d9 (Holtek Semiconductor, Inc.)
Version: 1.06
Speed: Up to 1.5 Mb/sec
Location ID: 0x1d114000 / 11
Current Available (mA): 500
Current Required (mA): 100
USB2.0 Hub:
Product ID: 0x0608
Vendor ID: 0x05e3 (Genesys Logic, Inc.)
Version: 32.98
Speed: Up to 480 Mb/sec
Location ID: 0x1d113000 / 10
Current Available (mA): 500
Current Required (mA): 100
Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse v2.0 :
Product ID: 0x00cb
Vendor ID: 0x045e (Microsoft Corporation)
Version: 1.99
Speed: Up to 1.5 Mb/sec
Manufacturer: Microsoft
Location ID: 0x1d113200 / 12
Current Available (mA): 500
Current Required (mA): 100
That's great if all you want are the contents of a bunch of device descriptors, but lsusb
gives you so much more - information on interfaces and endpoints, interface associations, composite devices... where can you find this information in OS X? There must be a tool that does this?