NAME

ubsa —

USB support for Belkin serial adapters

SYNOPSIS

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

device usb
device ucom
device ubsa

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

ubsa_load="YES"

DESCRIPTION

The ubsa driver provides support for the USB-to-RS232 Bridge chip used by a variety of serial adapters from Belkin and other vendors.

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

HARDWARE

The ubsa driver supports the following adapters:

AnyData ADU-500A EV-DO modem
AnyData ADU-E100A (no EV-DO mode support)
Belkin F5U103
Belkin F5U120
e-Tek Labs Kwik232
GoHubs GoCOM232
Peracom single port serial adapter

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 ubsa driver appeared in FreeBSD 5.0. The uplcom(4) manual page was adopted from NetBSD by Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> in April 2002 and modified for the ubsa driver by Alexander Kabaev <kan@FreeBSD.org> in October 2002.

AUTHORS

The ubsa driver was written by Alexander Kabaev <kan@FreeBSD.org>.