If you own any kind of USB device, you have most likely heard about a dongle, but the term is actually very specific in what ...

SANTA ANA, CA--(Marketwired - June 23, 2016) - Silex Technology America, Inc., a global leader in wired and wireless networking solutions, today introduced its newest USB and Serial device servers, ...

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 ...

San Jose, Calif. – Manufacturers of IEEE-1394 and Universal Serial Bus chips for computer and consumer electronics device connectivity are jockeying for position in their respective markets as updated ...

There's nothing more frustrating than your computer suddenly saying it can't recognize the USB device connected to the port. This is especially true when you're urgently trying to transfer a file to a ...

Never mind the iPad’s lack of USB and SDcard slots, how about a serial port? Our younger readers are now probably going like, “a serial what?”, but those of you that have been around for a while sure ...

USB 3.0 was a major breakthrough in the data transfer market. Marked by blue-colored USB ports, the USB 3.0 provided users with speeds up to 10 times of USB 2.0 (5 GBPS) thanks to which large media ...

In this post, we will explain the possible solutions to fix the Unknown USB Device (Descriptor Request Failed) error. USB Device Descriptor contains information about ...

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 ...