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 ...

USB drivers included in the Linux kernel are rife with security flaws that in some cases can be exploited to run untrusted code and take over users' computers. The vast majority of these ...

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 ...

I have a bunch of serial devices that I need to communicate with. Some of them are connected to native serial ports, and some have USB->RS232 adapters. I am communicating to them via the serial port ...

Dev unveils a faster, modernized take on Microsoft's file system for penguin-powered PCs Just under four years after the Linux kernel gained built-in read-write access to Windows drives, an ...

In previous articles, we looked at how to configure the kernel as well as the key components of an embedded operating system (OS). This new article focuses on the hardware components of embedded Linux ...

Hooking up I2C sensors is something which is generally associated with microcontrollers and SBCs, yet it’s very easy to use such I2C sensors from basically any system that runs Linux. After all, I2C ...

In theory, writing a Linux device driver shouldn’t be that hard, but it is harder than it looks. However, using libusb, you can easily deal with USB devices from user space, which, for many purposes, ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. As technology has advanced, the types of ports on computers have also changed for the better. However, that doesn't mean devices with older ...