
Why are USB ports sometimes referred to as serial ports ... - Super …
May 6, 2017 · These aren't USB ports referred to as serial ports. In your example, the Arduino has a USB-to-serial device (either in the form of a second microcontroller, or an FTDI chip). This …
USB to Serial RS232 - device setup correctly but software cannot …
Sep 27, 2020 · 1 USB to serial set up correctly with drivers and device manager states "The device is working properly" and assigned to COM2, but no software seems to be able to detect …
What are com ports and why does a PC need them? - Super User
May 24, 2015 · A traditional com port normally implemented RS-232 which is a rather simple serial protocol that according to the Wikipedia article dates back to 1969. It can be …
linux - File transfer over a serial line - Super User
I have 2 linux computers, and a serial line between them, one of them is only accessible through a serial line that has shell on it. How can I transfer files between the 2 computers? I've heard th...
linux - TCP to virtual serial port with socat - Super User
Jan 21, 2023 · Program 2, on the same machine, needs this data but is configured to receive it via a serial port. I need to somehow forward the TCP data to (I believe) a virtual serial port. I tried …
Why won't putty connect to usb serial port? - Super User
Nov 28, 2022 · 2 I am using windows 7, 64bit I have a MKS gen l connected to a usb port The CH340 com port emulation driver converts USB in to a virtual com port, com 5, baudrate …
What is the Communications Port (COM1) in Windows 7?
Jul 14, 2016 · Selected this for best answer purely because it addresses the primary part of my question: what the Communications Port on COM1 exactly is and what it's doing there. I didn't …
How to fix strange usb serial problems in windows 10?
Oct 27, 2020 · Uninstall the USB root hub drivers, in fact this will probably solve a host of usb-serial problems. I was getting really connection problems, with ports getting stuck. I think …
How to redirect QEMU -serial output to both a file and the …
Recently, I ran into the exactly same problem and found a solution: According to QEMU 3.1.0 documentation, you can use a chardev with options stdio and logfile and redirect your serial …
How do I know which /dev/ttyS* is my serial port? - Super User
I have a laptop which has only one serial port. I went into: /dev directory, and I found: ttyS0 ttyS1 ttyS2 ttyS3 How do I know which of those "ttyS" refers to my serial port?