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32.Dd $Mdocdate: March 22 2011 $
33.Dt PUC 4
34.Os
35.Sh NAME
36.Nm puc
37.Nd PCI
38.Dq universal
39communications card driver
40.Sh SYNOPSIS
41.Cd "puc* at pci?"
42.Cd "puc* at cardbus?"
43.Cd "lpt* at puc?"
44.Cd "com* at puc?"
45.Sh DESCRIPTION
46The
47.Nm
48driver provides support for PCI communications cards containing
49simple communications ports, such as NS16550-family
50.Pf ( Nm com )
51serial ports and standard PC-like
52.Pf ( Nm lpt )
53parallel ports.
54The driver is called
55.Dq universal
56because the interfaces to these devices aren't nearly as well
57defined and standard as they should be.
58.Pp
59The driver currently supports the following cards:
60.Pp
61.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact
62.It Tn "AT&T/Lucent Venus Modem (found on IBM 33L4618, Actiontec 56K)"
63.It Tn "Avlab Low Profile PCI 4S Quartet (4 port serial)"
64.It Tn "Avlab PCI 2S (2 port serial)"
65.It Tn "Boca Research Turbo Serial 654 (4 port serial)"
66.It Tn "Boca Research Turbo Serial 658 (8 port serial)"
67.It Tn "Cronyx Omega-PCI (8 port serial)"
68.It Tn "Decision Computer Inc PCCOM PCI 2 Port (2 port serial)"
69.It Tn "Decision Computer Inc PCCOM PCI 4 Port (4 port serial)"
70.It Tn "Decision Computer Inc PCCOM PCI 8 Port (8 port serial)"
71.It Tn "Digi International Digi Neo 4 (4-port serial)"
72.It Tn "Digi International Digi Neo 8 (8-port serial)"
73.It Tn "Dolphin Peripherals 4014 (dual parallel)"
74.It Tn "Dolphin Peripherals 4035 (dual serial)"
75.It Tn "Exsys EX-41098 (4 port serial)"
76.It Tn "IBM 4810 SurePOS 300 Series SCC (4 port serial)"
77.It Tn "Koutech IOFLEX-2S (dual serial)"
78.It Tn "Kouwell Model-223 (2-port serial, 1 port parallel)"
79.It Tn "Lava Computers 2SP-PCI (parallel port)"
80.It Tn "Lava Computers 2SP-PCI and Quattro-PCI (dual serial)"
81.It Tn "Lava Computers Octopus-550"
82.It Tn "Lava LavaPort-650"
83.It Tn "Moxa Technologies Co., Ltd. PCI I/O Card 4S (4 port serial)"
84.It Tn "Moxa Technologies Co., Ltd. C104H/PCI (4 port serial)"
85.It Tn "Moxa Technologies Co., Ltd. CP104/PCI (4 port serial)"
86.It Tn "NEC PK-UG-X008 (serial)"
87.It Tn "NEC PK-UG-X001 K56flex PCI (modem)"
88.It Tn "NetMos 1P (1 port parallel)"
89.It Tn "NetMos 2S1P (2 port serial and 1 port parallel)"
90.It Tn "NetMos 2S (2 port serial)"
91.It Tn "NetMos 4S (4 port serial)"
92.It Tn "NetMos 6S (6 port serial)"
93.It Tn "Oxford OX16PCI952 (2 port serial, 1 port parallel)"
94.It Tn "Oxford OX16PCI954 (4 port serial, 1 port parallel)"
95.It Tn "PLX 9016 (8 port serial)"
96.It Tn "SIIG Cyber 2P1S PCI (dual parallel and single serial)"
97.It Tn "SIIG Cyber 2S1P PCI (dual serial and single parallel)"
98.It Tn "SIIG Cyber 4S PCI (quad serial)"
99.It Tn "SIIG Cyber I/O PCI (single serial and single parallel)"
100.It Tn "SIIG Cyber Parallel Dual PCI (dual parallel)"
101.It Tn "SIIG Cyber Parallel PCI (single parallel)"
102.It Tn "SIIG Cyber Serial Dual PCI (dual serial)"
103.It Tn "SIIG Cyber Serial PCI (single serial)"
104.It Tn "SIIG Cyber 8S PCI 16C850"
105.It Tn "SUNIX 400x (1 port parallel)"
106.It Tn "SUNIX 401x (2 port parallel)"
107.It Tn "SUNIX 402x (1 port serial)"
108.It Tn "SUNIX 403x (2 port serial)"
109.It Tn "SUNIX 405x (4 port serial)"
110.It Tn "SUNIX 406x (8 port serial)"
111.It Tn "SUNIX 407x (2 port serial and 1 port parallel)"
112.It Tn "SUNIX 408x (2 port serial and 2 port parallel)"
113.It Tn "SUNIX 409x (4 port serial and 2 port parallel)"
114.It Tn "Syba Tech Ltd. PCI-4S2P-550-ECP (4 port serial and 2 port parallel)"
115.It Tn "US Robotics 3CP5609 PCI (modem)"
116.It Tn "VScom PCI 800  (8 port serial, probably OEM)"
117.It Tn "VScom PCI 011H (1 port parallel)"
118.It Tn "VScom PCI 100H (1 port serial)"
119.It Tn "VScom PCI 110H (1 port serial and 1 port parallel)"
120.It Tn "VScom PCI 200H (2 port serial)"
121.It Tn "VScom PCI 210H (2 port serial and 1 port parallel)"
122.It Tn "VScom PCI 400H (4 port serial)"
123.It Tn "VScom PCI 410H (4 port serial and 1 port parallel)"
124.It Tn "VScom PCI 800H (8 port serial)"
125.It Tn "VScom PCI 100L (1 port serial)"
126.It Tn "VScom PCI 200L (2 port serial)"
127.It Tn "VScom PCI 210L (2 port serial and 1 port parallel)"
128.It Tn "VScom PCI 400L (4 port serial)"
129.It Tn "VScom PCI 400S (4 port serial)"
130.It Tn "VScom PCI 800L (8 port serial)"
131.El
132.Pp
133The driver does not support these cards:
134.Pp
135.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact
136.It Tn "Dolphin Peripherals 4006 (single parallel)"
137.It Tn "Dolphin Peripherals 4025 (single serial)"
138.It Tn "Dolphin Peripherals 4078 (dual serial and single parallel)"
139.El
140.Pp
141but support for them (and for similar cards) should be trivial to add.
142.Pp
143The
144.Ar port
145locator is used to identify the port (starting from 0) on the
146communications card that a subdevice is supposed to attach to.
147Typically, the numbering of ports is explained in a card's
148hardware documentation, and the port numbers used by the driver
149are the same as (or one off from, e.g., the manual uses ports
150numbered starting from 1) those described in the documentation.
151.Sh SEE ALSO
152.Xr cardbus 4 ,
153.Xr com 4 ,
154.Xr intro 4 ,
155.Xr lpt 4 ,
156.Xr pci 4
157.Sh HISTORY
158The
159.Nm
160driver first appeared in
161.Nx 1.4 .
162.Ox
163support was added in
164.Ox 2.7 .
165CardBus support was added in
166.Ox 4.0 .
167.Sh AUTHORS
168The
169.Nm
170driver was written by Chris Demetriou.
171.Sh BUGS
172The current design of this driver keeps any
173.Nm com
174ports on these cards from easily being used as console.
175Of course, because boards with those are PCI boards, they also suffer
176from dynamic address assignment, which also means that they
177can't easily be used as console.
178.Pp
179Some of the cards supported by this driver have jumper-selectable
180.Nm com
181port clock multipliers, which are unsupported by this driver.
182Those can be easily accommodated with driver flags, or by
183using a properly scaled baud rate when talking to the card.
184.Pp
185Some of the cards supported by this driver, e.g., the VScom PCI-800,
186have software-selectable
187.Nm com
188port clock multipliers, which are unsupported by this driver.
189Those can be accommodated using internal driver flags, or by using
190a properly scaled baud rate when talking to the card.
191.Pp
192Some ports use an
193.Nm lpt
194driver other than the machine-independent driver.
195Those ports will not be able to use
196.Nm lpt
197ports attached to
198.Nm
199devices.
200