usbipd-win is a project to share serial devices with WSL machine. (Windows Subsystem for Linux).
It is highly useful when you develop embedded systems on Windows hosts inside WSL machine.
- Download and install usbipd MSI Package in GitHub releases page.
- Run CMD Prompt as Admin(Run as Administrator)
C:\Windows\System32>usbipd list
Connected:
BUSID VID:PID DEVICE STATE
1-4 0489:e0e2 MediaTek Bluetooth Adapter Not shared
2-1 1a86:7523 USB-SERIAL CH340 (COM4) Attached
4-1 05ac:12a8 Apple Mobile Device USB Composite Device Not shared
5-1 3277:0033 USB2.0 FHD UVC WebCam, USB2.0 IR UVC WebCam, Camera DFU D... Not shared
7-3 046d:082d HD Pro Webcam C920 Not shared
In this example, I want to share USB-SERIAL device in order to program ESP8266 chip.
Bind Serial Device:
C:\Windows\System32>usbipd bind -i 1a86:7523
usbipd: info: Device with hardware-id '1a86:7523' found at busid '2-1'.Attach Serial Device into WSL:
C:\Windows\System32>usbipd attach --wsl -i 1a86:7523
usbipd: info: Device with hardware-id '1a86:7523' found at busid '2-1'.
usbipd: info: Using WSL distribution 'Ubuntu' to attach; the device will be available in all WSL 2 distributions.
usbipd: info: Detected networking mode 'nat'.
usbipd: info: Using IP address 172.19.144.1 to reach the host.
dmesg message on WSL(Ubuntu)
[ 6188.974470] usb 1-1: SetAddress Request (2) to port 0
[ 6189.019112] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=1a86, idProduct=7523, bcdDevice= 2.54
[ 6189.019130] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[ 6189.019134] usb 1-1: Product: USB2.0-Serial
[ 6189.050824] usbcore: registered new interface driver ch341
[ 6189.050843] usbserial: USB Serial support registered for ch341-uart
[ 6189.050857] ch341 1-1:1.0: ch341-uart converter detected
[ 6189.064874] usb 1-1: ch341-uart converter now attached to ttyUSB0
[ 6250.842958] vhci_hcd: unlink->seqnum 6680
[ 6250.842963] vhci_hcd: urb->status -104
[ 6250.843465] vhci_hcd: unlink->seqnum 6681As you see, serial device is attached to WSL as ttyUSB0
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