dongle

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PlayStation 3 Troubleshooting My wireless Guitar for Guitar Hero III Les Paul will not connect no matter what I do, Once in a while all 4 lights on the guitar light up but no always and the dongle is always flashing.

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  1. noun A hardware device that serves as copy protection for certain software by rendering the software inoperable when the device is not plugged into a printer port.

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  • Comes with a USB dongle, the remote control offers an operation range of 10 meters. —  iTech News Net
  • What network the dongle is on and what coverage the area has, all depends on what signal your device obtains. —  Pocket-lint.com
  • The Arduino is a 5V device, while the dongle is a 3. 3V device, so there's some level shifting going on inside there. —  Near Future Laboratory
  • If there's a controller stuck in the other side of the dongle, there are a complement of read-from registers so you can see if any of the buttons are pressed and how much the joysticks are displaced. —  Near Future Laboratory
  • Using an optional wireless dongle, the Series 6 is also wireless DLNA compliant allowing for simpler access to multimedia stored on household computers. —  Gizmodo
 

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