USB joystick for Windows Subsystem for Linux?

[mshong0320]

I am using WSL to use ROS for a graduate course, and I need to access a joystick usb driver through WSL. I want to figure out how I can do that. When I plug in the joystick to my computer it doesn't show on /dev/. The joystick uses Windows' xusb22.sys driver, and it's showing that it's connected to Port_#0001.Hub_#0001. How can I access this joystick usb data through WSL?

[therealkenc]

How can I access this joystick usb data through WSL?

Unfortunately for your use-case, WSL doesn't have /dev/js? or block/character device support in general (with the exception of /dev/ttyS? and some special devices like /dev/null). We also don't have /dev/usb/* (libusb) support yet ref landing zone #412 and this User Voice. You could (in principle) open a new User Voice for /dev/js?, but if it were me I'd upvote libusb. Doing that won't get you joystick support before your course completes, but it does help express community interest in improved device support for WSL.