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How do I determine a USB memory stick's serial number in Cygwin?
I already know that within windows, you can get a USB memory drive's Volume Serial Number by doing dir <drive_letter>:, where <drive_letter> is the drive letter of the USB drive. I also ...
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What kind of hardware information is accessible for computers on a network?
If a computer is connected to say, your job's network what kind of hardware information can be retrieved. More specifically can an administrator get a list of all the CPU's and there serial ...
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OS X Serial Number in VM
I was wondering after installation of Mountain Lion on VMWare or other virtualization softwares (on a mac) will it show the same "serial number" in "About This Mac"? And is it possible to customize ...
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Android Development - Use of RealTerm or other program to directly manipulate and monitor radio/modem to debug Android Telephony [closed]
I and others are desperately trying to port Android 4/ICS/JB/CM10.1 from the LG Optimus 2X/P990 to the LG G2X/P999 cell phone but we haven't been able to get the phone's Qualcomm mdm6600 radio/modem ...
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Computer Serial Number - Secret? [closed]
Would there be any reason not to share once computer serial?
Additionally same question regarding a battery serial?
I am developing an online interface in combination with a little daemon running on ...
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Is there free software that can convert serial input messages to TCP/IP packets?
There is a serial port that can receive text messages from the external device. Now I want to pass these messages to a special software. But that software can only receive TCP/IP packet. For example, ...
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Create virtual port from another mac
I have 2 Macintoshes.
In the first Macintosh I have put in the USB port a device (like a iPod, Arduino, other) and I would like to connect from the second Macintosh to the device on the first.
The ...
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How can ffmpeg accept SPI inputs?
I'm trying to figure out how I could get ffmpeg to run on a small MCU and accept both an audio and a video bitstream from serial SPI inputs. Is this even possible? If so, how, and if not, what are my ...
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Serial Printer to USB through USB hub
I am looking at purchasing a win 8 tablet (non rt) that only has one usb port.
I need to be able to connect an epson serial printer as well as a usb to ethernet adapter.
Given that there is only one ...
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Serial number not found, copy of Windows not genuine
I have an HP-G71-340US notebook that I purchased 11/29/09.
When I power it up, a black screen comes on that shows "serial number not found" and it also says that my copy of Windows 7 Home Basic is ...
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Skipping serial prompt installing custom unattended Windows Seven DVD and getting OEM key instead
I'm currently doing my first custom unattended Windows Seven DVD creation.
I used WAIK with a retail Windows Seven DVD and created a "AutoUnattend.xml" file thanks to WSIM.
Aiming to have a ...
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I can't connect to internet via lan cable because 2032 battery died and my bios bios info is now empty
I have a compaq CQ61-112SL from about 5 years now... the main battery is almost dead, doesn't keep more then 10 minutes. anyway my problem is that my motherboard battery didn't have any more energy ...
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Sharing a serial port between two processes
As it is not possible to directly share a serial port between two processes using Linux, I am looking for another way to achieve this, I have heard about socat but could not find a concrete example of ...
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How to connect to Cisco W3550 with FreeBSD
There is a pfsense 2.0.1 (FreeBSD) and the command cu for access to the serial console, there is a Cisco W3550 attached but I can't get a connection.
I try following Command:
cu /dev/cuau0 -speed ...
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Accept print jobs from serial port, spool to USB printer
I've got a USB printer (HP LaserJet 1018) connected to my Windows 7 desktop. I also have a USB infrared adapter (Actisys ACT-IR224UN-Li) which presents itself as a raw serial port, currently COM3.
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Unable to Send Large Files Over XMODEM
I'm trying to send a file to a serial device using XMODEM from within a screen terminal. It works just fine with small (633 bytes) but fails when I try to send a larger file (3.3 kilobytes).
This is ...
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serial console output goes away while booting
I added console=ttyS0,57600n8 to my kernel command line. I get the normal boot messages until this
[ 5.123106] EXT4-fs (sda1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
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Where can I find (and how can I install) the correct driver for an Evolution ER1 robot on Windows XP?
This question is rather esoteric, but an hour of net-perusing led me nowhere useful.
I am attempting to get an old Evolution ER1 robot kit (no longer produced) running on Windows XP. The install CD ...
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Picking right serial device
I have several identical USB to serial port adapters on my Fedora FC12 server. Each time I boot, the devices seem to change devices names (/dev/ttyUSBn). Now I will assume that the bus and device ...
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Windows 7 CDC-232 Drivers Issues
This is the single most infuriating issue I have with Windows ever since XP. I recently built a new system and bought Windows 7 32bit.
I am an electrical engineering student and I have a whole host ...
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Using minicom on the iPhone (yes I'm jailbroken) [closed]
Alright, I have been trying to get TTL serial communication working on the iPhone without much luck. I recently installed minicom on the jailbroken iPhone, and wanted to test the functionality of ...
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How to send a file via xmodem to a serial device?
I need to send a file via xmodem to a serial device, from the command line. Must be 115200 8N1 with no flow control. I can't for the life of me work out how to do this!
I'm using ubuntu if it makes ...
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Filtering serial port io
I am currently working on a project where I communicate with hardware via a com port on its respective pc(win xp or 7) It is a fairly large project and sifting through the log file can be a bit of ...
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can a bad cable break serial port
I had a really strange experience last week, I am not quite sure if this is the right place to ask it, I decided to give it a go.
One of the technicians in my company was preparing some serial cables ...
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Can't communicate using PuTTY, but can with Termite
I'm trying to establish a serial connection to a peripheral from my PC's RS-232 port. Pretty simple stuff, and I've had not trouble doing it with countless peripherals before. And yet when I configure ...
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Emulating a Serial Device on OS X
I have been working with building Microcontroller (mostly Arduino) based devices for the past few months and have been quite surprised by the seeming lack of any form of serial emulation.
I know ...
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Serial redirection for a desktop computer
Lets suppose I have a desktop computer. Is there any way (i.e. a PCI card or some kind of software/hardware) through which I can enable the computer to support serial redirection?
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check which com port is taken by usb to serial cable [closed]
Is there a way to quickly see what COM port is taken by the usb-to-serial connection cable?
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How to enable and set Event Characters for FTDI drivers?
When sending only few bits of data via FTDI USB-Serial cable to the PC, you have to wait for one of the following conditions to occur before you get your data according to FTDI's AN232B-04, Data ...
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ftdi_open() of ftdi_sio v1.4.3 crash at _spin_lock_irqsave
i'm working on an sms related program using a ftdichip modem in gentoo-2.6.30 with ftdi_sio driver v1.4.3.
But i'm running into a weird situation now:
when OS starts up, my program will try to open ...
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How can I get a device with parallel interface to work on my laptop?
I have performed a product search for USB-to-parallel and ExpressCard-to-parallel adapters but when I read the reviews everyone complains that only work with printers.
Where can I get an adapter ...
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ubuntu libvirt serial console requires ttyS0 restart to connect?
I'm attempting to configure serial access from my libvirt host to one of its guests.
I've configured the device on the guest and started it:
jsharpe@sel-app1:~$ cat /etc/init/ttyS0.conf
# ttyS0 - ...
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USB-RS232 serial connection stalls
As a fan of gadgets sometimes I get carried away and this time I bought a Neato XV-11 vacuum bot (which by the way works pretty good).
Now there seems to be a firmware upgrade for the device that I ...
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Can Windows-7 Home Premium 32bit retail full install be used with a Window-7 Home Premium 32bit Upgrade license key?
Can Windows 7 Home Premium 32bit retail full install be used with Windows 7 Home Premium 32bit Upgrade license key?
I bought a Windows-7 32 or 64bit Home Premium Upgrade DVD (upgrade from Vista). I ...
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Why is the Windows XP COA product key found by winkeyfinder different from the genuine sticker product key?
Why is the Windows XP COA product license serial number key (XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX) found by winkeyfinder different from the genuine sticker product key?
I re-installed Windows XP on my Dell ...
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Moxa - NPort 5110 as HTTP Server or similar
I have a NPort 5110 Serial Device Server connecting our Automation Control Box to the LAN so we can communicate with it from a non-local pc via mapped com port. (if you are unfamiliar with the device ...
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How can I replace some old serial numeric keypads?
My Problem:
I have some older serial numeric keypads that are getting hard to replace. I tried a USB keypad but the distance of the cord wasn't long enough, so I tried using a USB to ethernet and ...
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how to reset /dev/ttyS0
I'm trying to connect to a Khepera robot using serial interface (running Scientific Linux 6.1) I used the command screen /dev/ttyS0 to communicate which worked OK, but then I wanted to close it and ...
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GPS detected as serial mouse
I'm not sure if this question is in the right stackexchange site because it's a mix of programming and hardware. Admin, feel free to move it to another stackexchange site.
Here is the problem:
I've ...
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Is there a distinct advantage that a PS2 port has over a serial/USB port?
Silly question perhaps ... I'm told that PS2 technology dates back to the early 1990's or thereabouts. By and large, motherboard manufacturers still support PS2 technology/ports instead of providing ...
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Terminal client which allows sending raw bytes?
Is there an application like putty, that would allow me to type in raw bytes to send over serial?
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A fake COM port on Windows XP?
I have a win32 program that communicates via serial port (RS-232 / EIA-232 / COM).
I would like to intercept redirect that communication without installing a virtual COM port (filter?) driver like ...
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RTTY serial decoder for Linux?
I am in need of a Linux RTTY (50 baud, 170 shift) decoder that can output to serial. I have been googling this for a while and keep coming up blank. Even a script goes a long way here.
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What does opening a serial port do?
What does opening the standard PC serial port do, in electrical terms (i.e. what voltages on which pins)?
For example, the ancient VB6 program which controls an apparatus I am tasked with maintaining ...
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Replacing phone line and modems with a pair of serial device servers
I have a pair of legacy applications that connect to each other through a phone line by use of external serial modems. I want to replace the telephone line with an Internet connection. The objective ...
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Boot messages on both VGA and serial console
I use RHEL6 (with GRUB and upstart from Ubuntu) and want to put boot messages on my normal VGA console as well on serial port.
I got GRUB to put messages on one of them, but not on both at same time.
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File transfer over a serial line
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 that ...
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Is serial RJ45 to USB a standard?
I can't find any resellers here in Sweden for the RJ45 to USB cable from Current Cost.
Are such RJ45 to USB cables covered by a standard so that I could buy one from another vendor?
It would also be ...
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Kernel programming for serial input device
This is probably an 'advanced' Linux/kernel question (please help me finding the right place to post it, if not here...)
I have an RFID reader that is actually a Serial-to-USB device (found it ...
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Impossible to Remove FTDI driver / FTDI Enumeration on Windows 7
I have already read the :
Is it possible to reset FTDI virtual com ports enumeration, we easily get hundreds of COM ports in production environment
topics which was pretty interesting !
But I ...
