Serial Connection Movidius Neural Compute Stick

[EscVM]

Hi! I'm trying to use the Movidius neural compute stick devise on WSL. Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to enable the serial communication.

Firstly, I've tried with stty -F /dev/ttyS5 -a, but it gives me a stty error "stty: /dev/ttyS5: Input/output error". Thanks for your help.

[WSLUser]

This is a dupe of quite a number of other dev/tty* issues. Short answer is WSL doesn't support raw devices and needs libusb to be fully implemented. Here's the UserVoice

[EscVM]

Ok, so for know only USB storage devices can be be used, right?

[WSLUser]

Yes. The UserVoice provides clarity for what you can and can't do.

[benhillis]

USB serial devices should work on newer builds. What build are you running?

[EscVM]

Ok! Thank you for your help @DarthSpock

[EscVM]

@benhillis I'm using the OS Build 16299.431. Before opening this issue, I had found this article (https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2017/04/14/serial-support-on-the-windows-subsystem-for-linux/). Unfortunately, I when I run 'tty -F /dev/ttySN -a', with N=COM port, I have an Input/Output error.

[therealkenc]

I don't have one of these, but for the lulz I cloned https://github.com/movidius/ncsdk.git. Sure enough it links libusb. That blog post is about RS232 serial devices, which typically these days are USB dongles but don't have to be. I don't think you are going to find this thing on /dev/ttyS? on Real Linux™ either.

This is dupe #1521 #2287 #2195 #2185 #412 et at. User Voice already cited above.
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[EscVM]

Thanks @therealkenc for your reply. When attached, the device on Windows it's like this..

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[kablondino]

This issue shouldn't be marked as closed. There is no solution in actually getting it recognized by the WSL that I could find.

[therealkenc]

No because dupe #2195 #2185 #412 are open (which is two too many) as is the UserVoice.