diff -ur usbutils-0.73.old/configure.in usbutils-0.73.new/configure.in
--- usbutils-0.73.old/configure.in	2007-11-13 10:19:41 -0500
+++ usbutils-0.73.new/configure.in	2007-11-13 10:23:12 -0500
@@ -20,10 +20,11 @@
 AC_FUNC_ALLOCA
 AC_HEADER_DIRENT
 AC_HEADER_STDC
-AC_CHECK_HEADERS([fcntl.h stdlib.h string.h sys/ioctl.h sys/param.h unistd.h getopt.h errno.h ])
+AC_CHECK_HEADERS([fcntl.h stdlib.h string.h sys/ioctl.h sys/param.h unistd.h getopt.h errno.h asm/byteorder.h machine/endian.h])
 
-# Checks for typedefs, structures, and compiler characteristics.
+# Checks for typedefs, structures, byte order, and compiler characteristics.
 AC_C_CONST
+AC_C_BIGENDIAN
 AC_TYPE_OFF_T
 AC_TYPE_SIZE_T
 
diff -ur usbutils-0.73.old/lsusb.c usbutils-0.73.new/lsusb.c
--- usbutils-0.73.old/lsusb.c	2007-11-13 10:19:41 -0500
+++ usbutils-0.73.new/lsusb.c	2007-11-13 10:23:12 -0500
@@ -35,8 +35,17 @@
 #include <errno.h>
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <stdarg.h>
-#include <asm/byteorder.h>
-#define le16_to_cpu	__le16_to_cpu
+#if defined(HAVE_ASM_BYTEORDER_H)
+# include <asm/byteorder.h>
+# define le16_to_cpu __le16_to_cpu
+#elif defined(HAVE_MACHINE_ENDIAN_H)
+# include <machine/endian.h>
+# ifdef WORDS_BIGENDIAN
+#  define le16_to_cpu __bswap16
+# else
+#  define le16_to_cpu(x) (x)
+# endif
+#endif
 #include <usb.h>
 
 /* NOTE:  that should be <libusb.h> and it should include