After connecting a device with a serial port with the computer via the Prolific PL2303 cable, some users have received the following error message: Please install the ...

There are lots of abbreviations and standards surrounding USB ports, and EPR is one of them. Here's what it means and ...

When it comes to server consoles, users have two major options, graphical or text. I personally prefer a serial console to a graphical one, and this preference isn't all rooted in snobbery. Serial ...

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 ...

Some software and specialty hardware requires you to use a traditional serial port. Serial ports have been around for decades and work by transferring one bit of data at a time at a relatively slow ...

We know, you’ve already got a USB to serial adapter. Probably several of them, in fact. But that doesn’t mean you couldn’t use one more — especially when it’s as as cleverly designed as this one from ...

Chances are high that most of us deal with USB cables at least once a day. Whether that's because you're plugging in your phone to charge, or connecting a device to your PC, USBs are a common part of ...

i'm trying to buy a USB to RS-232 adapter for use with my M1 Mac Mini, but this is turning out to be a lot more complicated than i thought it would be. the most common devices seem to be based on ...

The distro in question is Proxmox though that likely isn’t a factor. It’s straightforward to start the systemd unit that fires up console on /dev/ttyUSB0 and connect to it, log in, etc…. But I don’t ...

Ok, the title is a bit misleading. Like most things in life, it really isn’t infinite. But I’m going to show you how you can use a very interesting Linux feature to turn one serial port from a ...