NAME

uplcom —

USB support for Prolific PL-2303/2303X/2303HX serial adapters driver

SYNOPSIS

To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file:

device usb
device ucom
device uplcom

Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):

uplcom_load="YES"

DESCRIPTION

The uplcom driver provides support for various serial adapters based on the Prolific PL-2303, PL-2303X and PL-2303HX USB-to-RS232 Bridge chips.

The device is accessed through the ucom(4) driver which makes it behave like a tty(4).

HARDWARE

The uplcom driver supports the following devices and adapters:

ADLINK ND-6530 USB-Serial Adapter
Alcatel One Touch 535/735 Phone
Alcor AU9720 USB-RS232 Serial Adapter
AlDiga AL-11U Modem
Alltronix ACM003U00 Modem
Anchor Serial adapter
ATEN UC-232A
ATEN UC-232B
BAFO BF-800 and BF-810
Belkin F5U257
BenQ S81 Phone
Corega CG-USBRS232R Serial Adapter
Cressi Edy (Seiko) Diving Computer
ELECOM UC-SGT Serial Adapter
HAL Corporation Crossam2+USB IR commander
Hama USB RS-232 Serial Adapter
Hamlet exaggerate XURS232
HP LD220 Point-Of-Sale (POS) Display
IOGEAR UC-232A
I/O DATA USB-RSAQ, USB-RSAQ2, USB-RSAQ3 and USB-RSAQ5
iTegno WM1080A GSM/GFPRS Modem
iTegno WM2080A CDMA Modem
Leadtek 9531 GPS
Micromax 610U Modem
Microsoft Palm 700WX
Mobile Action MA-620 Infrared Adapter
Motorola Cables
Nokia CA-42 Cable
OTI DKU-5 cable
Panasonic TY-TP50P6-S flat screen
PLX CA-42 Phone Cable
PLANEX USB-RS232 URS-03
Prolific Generic USB-Serial Adapters
Prolific Generic USB-Serial Adapters (HXN)
Prolific Pharos USB-Serial Adapter
Prolific USB-Serial Controller D
RATOC REX-USB60
Radio Shack USB Serial Cable
Sagem USB-Serial Adapter
Samsung I330 Phone Cradle
Sandberg USB to Serial Link (model number 133-08)
Sanwa KB-USB2 Multimeter cable
Siemens/BenQ EF81, SX1, X65 and X75 Mobile Phones
Sitecom USB-Serial Adapter
SMART Technologies USB-Serial Adapter
Sony QN3 Phone Cable
Sony Ericsson Datapilot
Sony Ericsson DCU-10 and DCU-11 (Susteen) USB Cables
SOURCENEXT KeikaiDenwa 8 (with and without charger)
Speed Dragon USB-Serial Cable
Syntech CPT-8001C Barcode Scanner
TDK UHA6400 and UPA9664 USB-PHS Adapters
TRENDnet USB to Serial Converter (TU-S9)
Tripp-Lite U209-000-R USB-Serial Adapter
UIC HCR331 Magnetic Stripe Card Reader
UIC MSR206 Magnetic Stripe Card Reader
Willcom W-SIM DD PHS terminal.(WS002IN)
YC-Cable USB-Serial Adapter
Zeagle N2iTion3 Diving Computer

SYSCTL VARIABLES

The following variables are available as both sysctl(8) variables and loader(8) tunables:

hw.usb.uplcom.debug: Debug output level, where 0 is debugging disabled and larger values increase debug message verbosity. Default is 0.

FILES

/dev/ttyU*: for callin ports
/dev/ttyU*.init
/dev/ttyU*.lock: corresponding callin initial-state and lock-state devices
/dev/cuaU*: for callout ports
/dev/cuaU*.init
/dev/cuaU*.lock: corresponding callout initial-state and lock-state devices

HISTORY

The uplcom driver appeared in NetBSD 1.6. This manual page was adopted from NetBSD by Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> in April 2002.