If you've been using computers for more than a couple of decades, you've probably used a serial port to attach peripherals like your mouse and modem. Until the USB standard rendered them obsolete in ...

Alarmingly, these ports are often connected to modems or serial port servers for remote access to systems too: making for as many as 114,000 serial port servers out there that are accessible from the ...

Just because new computers no longer include the venerable serial port doesn’t mean it’s dead. In fact, the serial port is still thriving in many test instruments, industrial controls and medical ...

A recently published book addresses the need for and popularity of serial ports. Serial Port Complete Second Edition (Lakeview Research, December 2007, ISBN 978-1931448-06-2) by Jan Axelson explores ...

A port is a point where the communication between the computer and external devices happens. The female end of the connector is the port that usually sits on the motherboard. These ports help the ...

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 ...

You all know that there are a number of serial ports in your personal computer. The serial ports act as interface which allows transfer of information between the computers. The first serial port is ...

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 ...