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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...