In the last two installments of Driving Me Nuts [LJ August 2002 and October 2002], we covered the tty layer, explaining how to create a minimal tty driver. We also explained some of the various ioctls ...
Learn what a USB to Serial adapter is used for, when you might need one, and whether installing a driver is required for it ...
Hardware hackers building interactive gadgets based on the Arduino microcontrollers are finding that a recent driver update that Microsoft deployed over Windows Update has bricked some of their ...
I find myself in need of a PCI RS-232 serial card with one or more internal, 10pin header to drive an LCD display; NOT PCI-Express or serial ATA. I'd like something that's got decent Windows Server ...
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 ...
The FTDI FT232 chip is found in thousands of electronic baubles, from Arduinos to test equipment, and more than a few bits of consumer electronics. It’s a simple chip, converting USB to a serial port, ...