Love to have USB support

[lovettchris]

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• A brief description
  It is awesome that I can do all this http://dev.px4.io/starting-installing-linux.html and the build succeeds. The only step missing now is USB support so I can download the firmware onto my flight controller.
• Expected results
  USB support.
• Actual results (with terminal output if applicable)
• Your Windows build number
  10.0.14393.0
• Steps / commands required to reproduce the error
  See http://dev.px4.io/starting-installing-linux.html
• Strace of the failing command
• Required packages and commands to install

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[benhillis]

Thanks for the suggestion. This is a duplicate of #560.

[lovettchris]

Well #560 is specifically about removable drives, mine is much more general, any USB device...

[aseering]

@lovettchris -- "general USB support" turns out to be a very broad topic. Because Linux USB drivers live in the kernel, I would expect it to be hard to just expose "USB" to userspace; it would probably be on a per-driver (or at least per-type-of-hardware) basis. In this particular case, it looks like what you specifically want is Linux support for USB-Serial devices.

@benhillis -- I agree with @lovettchris that this issue is not a dupe of #560 . (Or if it is, then y'all's implementation is doing something much more clever than I understand :-) ) That one's filesystems; this one is (more or less) serial ports.

[benhillis]

You're right, that issue is probably too specific. However hardware support has been requested many times and it's definitely something we know people want (#412 #242 #237 etc).

[aseering]

Thanks @benhillis for the clarification. Are you folks throwing all hardware support under one category, or is it useful for us to split things out?

I bet it would be pretty straightforward to expose Windows serial devices as simple WSL /dev entries, for example. Grab the device when a Linux process opens the file, etc. There's a legitimate question about how high-priority that would be, but I bet it'd be a very different project than, for example, supporting GPUs, or allowing raw access to physical disks.

[benhillis]

@aseering as you allude to it's really a device-by-device basis. I'll go ahead and reopen this thread so it doesn't get lost with all the other closed issues.

[lovettchris]

Yes I only need serial devices actually, so I will close this and open a more specific issue.

[benhillis]

Thanks @lovettchris. Without committing to anything I know serial is something we're investigating since, as Adam suggested, it would probably be pretty straightforward.

[Raphdeumax]

Hi all,
At this it's not possible to connect a Wifi dongle on the WSL ?
I would like to scan the network with using the Kali Linux Distribution.
Thanks

[sunilmut]

@Raphdeumax - USB WiFi dongle should work with WSL if it gets correctly enumerated by Windows. I haven't tried it personally, but, conceptually it should work.