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:

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
• 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 Pharos USB-Serial Adapter
• 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

SEE ALSO¶

tty(4), ucom(4), usb(4)

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.