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 ...
With the introduction of Microchip’s microcontrollers with the USB OTG peripheral, microcontroller applications can easily support USB embedded host functionality. Many devices fall under one of the ...
I have an old Toshiba laptop with a USB slot and Windows95 OSR2 (or it may be Win95B, I'm not certain) installed. I downloaded and installed the USB drivers for it, it detects the slot. However, when ...
I'm trying to install a Turtle Beach USB sound card's driver, but I'm running into a hitch. Windows is matching it up to a generic USB driver and installing it. The catch here is that the Turtle Beach ...
Learn what a USB to Serial adapter is used for, when you might need one, and whether installing a driver is required for it ...
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 ...