No Device Manager

In my mac there is a issue with USB-devices, they every morning after waking up my laptop from sleep, the USB devices wont fire up (Apple Keyboard and Asus DAC). Keyboard is rather annoying and sure, listening music from my speakers would be also nice 😉

Solution is to go back of my monitor and plug out, plug in and repeat until device starts working. As my knowledge there is no way to this like Windows way, and that is with Device Manager.

There is “System Report”:

But from there one can not do anything, it just is text information of devices. No way to “restart” USB Bus or check out if there is problem with drivers or something. Probably because Apple wants to give out impression that Mac does not need drivers, but that is not true. Anyhow that is a different subject for a different time 🙂

But for usability good old fashion Device Manager from Windows and some Linux distros would save the day. Sure it is a lot more “under the hood” than normal user will ever get, but for developers and other techy user it would really be golden:

(photo from Microsoft.com)