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Universal Serial Bus, an industry standard for serial communication.

The Universal Serial Bus is an industry standard for serial communication, defining:

  • connectors
  • protocols
  • cables

Originally developed to have a standard for connecting devices to computers.

More info on usb.org and wikipedia.

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TTY "Serial" Terminal over USB?

I have a few servers in a rack that like to drop their network connection, requiring a restart and/or handheld intervention. I purchased a Linksys NSLU2 and installed Debian on it in order to create a serial terminal. However, with USB-Serial…
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Prevent specific USB Mass Storage mount with udev on Ubuntu?

On Ubuntu 10.04, I have a USB 3G dongle which presents itself initially as a USB Mass Storage device with Windows drivers. usb_modeswitch can be used to get it to present itself as a modem, but the mass storage device still auto-mounts itself every…
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Auto-mount USB drives in Ubunto 10.04?

I have a cron-scheduled backup task, that writes to a USB drive. (It's a SATA drive stuck in an external dock that is connected to my machine via USB.) This usually auto-mounts at /media/backups (since "backups" is the partition label for the…
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Linux USB/Serial port won't create a tty device in /dev

I am connecting a USB to serial driver port to my system and I get about halfway to where I need to go. When it is plugged in dmesg indicates: <6>usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using sl811-hcd and address 4 <6>usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen…
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How do I get USB devices working in VMware with Linux as the host, and WinXP as the guest?

I can't get USB devices other than the mouse and keyboard to work in Windows under VMware. I have Ubuntu Intrepid as my host operating system, and Windows XP Service Pack 2 as the guest operating system. I'm using VMware Server 2.0 for Linux. Ubuntu…
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Can I make a Linux host appear to be a USB hard drive?

Is there a daemon or driver I can install on a Linux host -- in this case a Buffalo TeraStation, but I'm also curious about the general case -- which will allow that host to appear as a USB hard drive to another host when connected by a USB A…
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physical port locks for ethernet, USB, phone, etc.?

If a user or a visitor sees a port, they will try to stick something into it and then complain to us when it doesn't work or breaks their stuff. Are there such things as physical locks that can be put into ports so they can't use them? Disabling a…
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How to copy directories using debugfs?

The debugfs manpage gives the impression that the command 'rdump . .' will recursively copy all files found on the specified filesystem from the debugfs cwd to the native filesystem's cwd. Instead I seem to receive a syntax error, and no copy is…
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How to prevent USB access in windows machines

We would like to prevent USB access to machines (primarily Windows XP, 2003 machines) so that it would not be possible for employees to copy anything from the disk to a pen drive.
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Recovering Bad USB Flash Drive

Is there a way to recover contents of a bad USB Flash Drive? I know something has gone wrong when you get asked to format the stick when you plug it in.
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Disable USB Storage in General But Include Exceptions for Specific Devices

There are several questions here about disabling USB storage in general via GPO but I can find no information on whether it is possible to add exceptions for specific devices. Put another way, can USB drive types that include builtin encryption be…
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setting usb port to write only on linux

How would I go about disabling reading from usb sticks but still have the ability to write to them? The reasoning is this is a public internet access (kiosk more or less) computer but we want the user to be able save files to a usb stick but not…
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Attaching USB device

Just wondering if anybody knows is there any script for vmware to attach or detach USB device?
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USB networking setup between Android and embedded Linux

I'm working on a project right now where we have an embedded Linux system running some sensor/motor control functionality, and we're creating a GUI application to allow the user to control the system. In the future we may run both applications on a…
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Autofs and udev rules to restrict usb permissions to groups

I need some help trying to figure out how to restrict the reading and writing access of usb devices. There are two groups on my system: usbreaders: only should have rights to access and read the usb content. usbwriters: should have reading and…
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