I have two USB 3.0 ports in my dell inspiron 5421 laptop . The ports marked as SS meaning super speed. But when I run the command lspci -t this is the output
/: Bus 02.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=ehci-pci/2p, 480M
|__ Port 1: Dev 2, If 0, Class=Hub, Driver=hub/6p, 480M
/: Bus 01.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=ehci-pci/2p, 480M
|__ Port 1: Dev 2, If 0, Class=Hub, Driver=hub/6p, 480M
|__ Port 3: Dev 3, If 0, Class=Vendor Specific Class, Driver=rtsx_usb, 480M
|__ Port 4: Dev 4, If 0, Class=Wireless, Driver=btusb, 12M
|__ Port 4: Dev 4, If 1, Class=Wireless, Driver=btusb, 12M
|__ Port 6: Dev 5, If 0, Class=Video, Driver=uvcvideo, 480M
|__ Port 6: Dev 5, If 1, Class=Video, Driver=uvcvideo, 480M
and the output of lsusb is below
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0c45:649a Microdia
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 8087:07da Intel Corp.
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:0129 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTS5129 Card Reader Controller
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
As is shown, none of the command shows the presence of a Super Speed USB port. I never actually checked it before but currently I am thinking to buy a portable 256Gb SSD, that's why I am checking if the port would be a bottleneck for the Drive.
Here is the output of lsmod | grep hcd; lspci -nnk | grep "USB controller" -A2
00:1a.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 [8086:1e2d] (rev 04)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0591]
Kernel driver in use: ehci-pci
00:1d.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 [8086:1e26] (rev 04)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0591]
Kernel driver in use: ehci-pci
Make sure that the USB 3 ports appear in the BIOS and are not disabled.
Rami Rosen