USBIPD: Using serial ports in WSL2

[@Jane--Smith]

Very helpful. Thank you very much!

[@negimox]

mine shows, usbipd: error: Failed to attach device with busid '2-9'. Tried moving it to different port still didn't work,

[@petterpin2163]

I am able to connect to an arduino, and it is listed using «lsusb». How can I serial monitor it? In wsl1 I can call it using /dev/ttyS*, but that does not work in wsl2.

[@callirgos01]

This assumes you are using a USB adapter, I am using a virtual COM port, no USB device involved, how can I forward the COM port over to WSL?

[@oniro-with-zyga499]

it depends on what you need. Usually full USB is needed with more complex devices. Plain old serial ports used to work in WSL-1 automatically. In WSL-2 this functionality was lost, AFIAIR.

[@pieterruys4397]

I'm having an issue where the device does connect to my wsl2 but the comport doesn't seem to follow, and I can't acces the serial port through my wsl.

[@oniro-with-zyga499]

I have no suggestion beyond trying a few more times. Perhaps the versions have drifted over time. Perhaps there's something flaky in the process. I've since moved on from working on Onrio and I'm not as constrained with working on Windows devices.

[@Kiki0622]

thank you so much!

[@myusrn]

Can i use usbipd installed on two different windows installs to project a localhost usb thumbdrive into a remote windows virtual machine host environment?

[@oniro-with-zyga499]

I have not tried that but in principle the answer is yes. The whole idea of USB over TCP/IP is that you can treat this as network traffic.

[@myusrn]

@@oniro-with-zyga499 thanks, I wasn't sure if the usbip-win install has ability to act as both a server and a client. Scenario I'm thinking for windows to windows / macOS usb device sharing over ip is a fido2 security key for authentication and thumbprint for diskpart / disk utilities activities while asking the remote console over rdp / vnc.

[@nethomas1968]

The 'wsl' command has been removed from uspipd.

[@oniro-with-zyga499]

Thanks for sharing. This is the problem with all kinds of video tutorials, they do get out of date eventually.

[@SCIENindustries]

what about controllers (xbox controller for example) I tried, and it appears under usb-devices but with no driver attached, although looking into WSL github there should be driver for that. Any suggestions to solve that problem?

[@ZygmuntKrynicki]

I didn't try with Xbox controllers, depending on how it is showing up in the kernel you may or may not need a kernel level driver. Through libusb it should work but I, again, have not tried that particular case.

[@cameronduffy6979]

Hi, sadly your screenshots are blurry and unreadable.

[@suzonchowdhury9134]

There goes my hope of using WSL as daily driver through the window. Adding additional steps to already complicated tasks isn't helpful.