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PyUSB. USBView and other Linux USB stuff. USBView is a GTK program that displays the topography of the devices that are plugged into the USB bus on a Linux machine. It also displays information on each of the devices. This can be useful to determine if a device is working properly or not. Requirements USBView uses GTK+ 3.x and requires that USB support to be compiled into your kernel.

It successfully runs on development kernel versions greater than 2.3.18 and the 2.2.18 stable kernel. The Linux-USB homepage can help you out getting USB running on Linux. Screenshot Here is the obligitory screenshot: Download Source for usbview-2.0 Git tree The git tree for usbview can be browsed here. As of kernel version 2.3.20 my USB Serial converter driver is in the main kernel tree.

HandSpring Visor USB Driver The USB Serial driver currently supports the HandSpring Visor. Inside Out (Digi) Edgeport USB Driver See this page for more information about this driver. Liens utiles. PUBLICATIONS EN ELECTRONIQUE. Hardware, expansion and troubleshooting. Beyond Logic. USB in a NutShell - Chapter 1 - Introduction. Starting out new with USB can be quite daunting.

With the USB 2.0 specification at 650 pages one could easily be put off just by the sheer size of the standard. This is only the beginning of a long list of associated standards for USB. There are USB Class Standards such as the HID Class Specification which details the common operation of devices (keyboards, mice etc) falling under the HID (Human Interface Devices) Class - only another 97 pages. If you are designing a USB Host, then you have three Host Controller Interface Standards to choose from. None of these are detailed in the USB 2.0 Spec. The good news is you don’t even need to bother reading the entire USB standard. So now we can begin to read the parts of the standard relevant to our needs. 4 - Architectural Overview 5 - USB Data Flow Model 9 - USB Device Frame Work, and 10 - USB Host Hardware and Software. Peripheral hardware (Electronics) designers on the other hand may only need to read chapters,