NAME¶
ucycom —
device driver for Cypress
CY7C63743 and CY7C64013 USB to RS232 bridges
SYNOPSIS¶
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following line in your kernel
configuration file:
device
ucycom
Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following
line in
loader.conf(5):
DESCRIPTION¶
The
ucycom driver provides support for the Cypress CY7C63743
and CY7C64013 bridge chips. These chips were designed to provide a low-cost
transition path to USB for existing RS232 devices, and have fairly limited
capabilities.
The
ucycom driver behaves like a
tty(4).
HARDWARE¶
The
ucycom driver currently supports the following devices
which incorporate Cypress USB to RS232 bridge chips:
- DeLorme Earthmate USB GPS
receiver
SEE ALSO¶
tty(4),
usb(4)
HISTORY¶
The
ucycom driver first appeared in
FreeBSD
5.3.
AUTHORS¶
The
ucycom driver and this manual page were written by
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
⟨des@FreeBSD.org⟩.
