The USB standard is touted for its ability to connect devices of all types with uniform consistency, however it's not quite ...

In Part I of this article, I briefly mentioned the generic USB driver in the context of getting a USB device to communicate through it easily, with no custom kernel programming. Unfortunately, I ...

San Jose, Calif. – Manufacturers of IEEE-1394 and Universal Serial Bus chips for computer and consumer electronics device connectivity are jockeying for position in their respective markets as updated ...

There was a time when computers had parallel ports. For the hacker types, this meant an eight bit data port, and nine additional pins which could be interfaced with the real world via the 25 pin ...

SANTA ANA, CA--(Marketwired - June 23, 2016) - Silex Technology America, Inc., a global leader in wired and wireless networking solutions, today introduced its newest USB and Serial device servers, ...

Never mind the iPad’s lack of USB and SDcard slots, how about a serial port? Our younger readers are now probably going like, “a serial what?”, but those of you that have been around for a while sure ...

Some businesses require serial numbers for all USB devices attached to their network. The Window Device Manager console displays a list of all your USB peripherals and provides you with detailed ...

In my last column [see LJ December 2002], we covered the serial layer in the 2.5 (hopefully soon to be 2.6) kernel tree. We mentioned in passing that a USB-to-serial driver layer in the kernel helps ...