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 ...

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 ...

This example shows how to communicate between the AVR DU microcontroller and a host computer using the Universal Serial Bus (USB) Communication Device Class (CDC). In addition to an application that ...

At some point in the past, Unix — the progenitor of Linux — treated virtually everything as a file, and all files were created more or less equal. Programs didn’t care if a file was local, on the ...

This repository contains tools, libraries, and example programs for running MCTP (Management Component Transport Protocol) over serial links on Linux. It bundles a small C++ framing library, a ...

Hello, I'm programming a control library under Linux. I'm basically using a command set to control the motion of a telescope. <BR><BR>Typically, you'd just connect the serial port of your PC to the ...

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 ...