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 ...

To communicate with a device connected via universal serial bus (USB), a computer needs the driver, not just for the device itself, but also for the USB controller. Microsoft Windows uses USB ...

Keyspan today announced that it’s shipping Mac OS X drivers for its USB serial adapter line. The drivers support Keyspan’s Twin Serial Adapters, its PDA adapter and its High-Speed USB adapter for ...

The Universal Serial Bus (USB) is one of the most commonly required interfaces in a chip design, but validation of a USB host implementation can be a tedious task. The most efficient way to validate ...

Keyspan has updated its Mac OS X driver for the USB to serial adapters. Version 1.2 of the USB software fixes issues with the Classic environment crashing when quitting and some glitches with Global ...

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 ...