ucycom (4)

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(The comments found at the beginning of the groff file "man4/ucycom.4freebsd".)

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 usb device ucom device ucycom

Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf5:

ucycom_load="YES"

DESCRIPTION

The ifconfig 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 ifconfig driver behaves like a tty(4).

HARDWARE

The ifconfig 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 ifconfig driver first appeared in Fx 5.3 .

AUTHORS

An -nosplit The ifconfig driver and this manual page were written by An Dag-Erling Sm/orgrav Aq des@FreeBSD.org .