Pololu Wixel - Manual (Page 14)

3.b. Installing Linux Drivers and Software
The Wixel Configuration Utility running in Ubuntu Linux.
You can download the Wixel Configuration Utility and the Wixel command-line utility (wixelcmd) for Linux here:
• Wixel Linux Software for i386 (32-bit) [http://www.pololu.com/file/download/wixel-
linux-110623-i386.tar.gz?file_id=0J489] (211k gz)
• Wixel Linux Software for amd64 (64-bit) [http://www.pololu.com/file/download/wixel-
linux-110623-amd64.tar.gz?file_id=0J490] (216k gz)
Unzip the tar/gzip archive by running “tar -xzvf” followed by the name of the file. After following the instructions in
README.txt
, you can run the programs by executing
wixelconfig
or
wixelcmd
.
Any Wixel app that implements a USB virtual COM port or a Human Interface Device (HID) will work on Linux
with no special driver installation required.
The virtual COM ports are managed by the cdc-acm kernel module, whose source code you can find in your kernel’s
source code in
drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c . When you connect a Wixel running an app that implements a virtual
serial port to the PC, the virtual serial port should appear as a device with a name like
/dev/ttyACM0
(the number
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