With Linux and the serial port there is good news and there is bad news. The good news is that Linux has great support for serial hardware of all sorts and a host of tools for accessing the serial ...

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 ...

I'm writing a program in C to write/select/read on a serial port in Linux. I have the serial port code all set up, but the problem is that I need this operation to be very fast (time is the issue here ...

The follwing code write to a serial port, i receive it in hyper terminal but only the first letter of what i sent. I am not sure why, hopefully somone can take a look and help me.

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 ...

Do you have a linux server without a keyboard or monitor? Need to administer the server on-site but don't want to lug over a monitor and keyboard (or kvm)? Then setup the server to output the console ...