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40.Dd July 29, 2007
41.Dt UPLCOM 4
42.Os
43.Sh NAME
44.Nm uplcom
45.Nd USB support for Prolific PL-2303/2303X/2303HX serial adapters driver
46.Sh SYNOPSIS
47To compile this driver into the kernel,
48place the following lines in your
49kernel configuration file:
50.Bd -ragged -offset indent
51.Cd "device uplcom"
52.Cd "device ucom"
53.Ed
54.Pp
55Alternatively, to load the driver as a
56module at boot time, place the following line in
57.Xr loader.conf 5 :
58.Bd -literal -offset indent
59uplcom_load="YES"
60.Ed
61.Sh DESCRIPTION
62The
63.Nm
64driver provides support for various serial adapters based on the Prolific
65PL-2303, PL-2303X and PL-2303HX USB-to-RS232 Bridge chips.
66.Pp
67The device is accessed through the
68.Xr ucom 4
69driver which makes it behave like a
70.Xr tty 4 .
71.Sh HARDWARE
72The
73.Nm
74driver supports the following devices:
75.Pp
76.Bl -bullet -compact
77.It
78Alcatel One Touch 535/735 phones
79.It
80Aten UC-232A USB to serial adapter
81.It
82BAFO BF-800 and BF-810 USB to serial adapters
83.It
84Belkin F5U257 USB to serial adapter
85.It
86Elecom UC-SGT USB to serial adapter
87.It
88HAL Corporation Crossam2+USB IR commander
89.It
90Hama USB RS-232 serial adapter
91.It
92Hamlet exagerate XURS232
93.It
94Huawei UMTS/HSDPA adapters
95.It
96IOGEAR UC-232A
97.It
98I/O DATA USB-RSAQ series USB to serial adapters
99.It
100Itegno GSM/GPRS and CDMA modems
101.It
102Leadtek 9531 GPS
103.It
104Mobile Action MA-620 IrDA
105.It
106Nokia CA-42 USB data cable clones
107.It
108Panasonic TYTP50P6S 50" touch panel
109.It
110Pharos 360 GPS
111.It
112PLANEX USB-RS232 URS-03
113.It
114Radio Shack USB to serial cable
115.It
116RATOC REX-USB60 USB to serial adapter
117.It
118Sagem USB data cables
119.It
120Samsung I330 smartphone cradle
121.It
122Sandberg USB to Serial Link (model number 133-08)
123.It
124Siemens SX1 cellphone
125.It
126Siemens x65 and x75 series cellphones
127.It
128Sitecom USB to serial cable
129.It
130Sony-Ericsson (Susteen) DCU-10 and DCU-11 USB data cables
131.It
132Sourcenext KeikaiDenwa 8 (with and without charger)
133.It
134Susteen Datapilot Universal-2 Phone Cable
135.It
136Syntech CPT-8001C barcode scanner USB IR cradle
137.It
138TDK USB-PHS adapter UHA6400
139.It
140TDK USB-PDC adapter UPA9664
141.It
142Tripp-Lite U209-000-R USB to serial cable
143.It
144Willcom W-SIM DD PHS terminal (WS002IN)
145.El
146.Pp
147The list is far from being complete and the
148.Nm
149driver provides support for many more devices based on original Prolific
150chips or it's clones:
151.Pp
152.Bl -bullet -compact
153.It
154Alcor AU9720 USB to serial controller
155.It
156Anchor Chips USB to serial controller
157.It
158Speed Dragon Multimedia MS3303H USB to serial controller
159.El
160.Sh SEE ALSO
161.Xr tty 4 ,
162.Xr ucom 4 ,
163.Xr usb 4
164.Sh HISTORY
165The
166.Nm
167driver
168appeared in
169.Nx 1.6 .
170This manual page was adopted from
171.Nx
172by
173.An Tom Rhodes Aq trhodes@FreeBSD.org
174in April 2002.
175