In theory, writing a Linux device driver shouldn’t be that hard, but it is harder than it looks. However, using libusb, you can easily deal with USB devices from user space, which, for many ...

Academics say they discovered 26 new vulnerabilities in the USB driver stack employed by operating systems such as Linux, MacOS, Windows, and FreeBSD. The research team, made up by Hui Peng from ...

The difficulty of writing device drivers is one of the major barriers to the adoption of the USB. A typical embedded-device engineer who can comfortably design embedded systems all day long can get ...

You don’t really need to know all the technical ins-and-outs here, as it’s pretty complex stuff, but the gist of it is that AMD is pushing forward to prepare the ground for USB 4 to work ...

USB drivers included in the Linux kernel are rife with security flaws that in some cases can be exploited to run untrusted code and take over users' computers. The vast majority of these ...

In the standard driver model for Linux, device drivers register themselves with the appropriate subsystem: PCI, USB, open firmware (device tree), platform device, and so on. The registration includes ...

Congratulations! The Linux kernel can initialize the LPC2148 USB device successfully. Unfortunately, there is no standard Linux USB kernel driver for this device. Instead, you need to compile and run ...

To burn an image to USB, you’ll need a specialized program. Many Linux distributions recommend using Rufus, UNetbootin, or Universal USB Installer.

I've found that driver support in Linux is excellent. But you may have seen somebody exclaim that their PC just isn't supported with Linux, and rumors have circulated around for years that Linux ...

Of course, the trend these days is to have one driver — like the USB driver — and have it provide user-space access so that everyone doesn’t have to write their own drivers.

If you're looking for a slightly different approach to bolstering your Linux server security, you might try disabling USB support. Jack Wallen shows you how on Ubuntu Server 16.04.

Summit Semiconductor LLC, a manufacturer of wireless audio technologies for home theater, today announced that it will demonstrate its Summit Connect USB technology at CES 2011. Summit Connect enables ...